Abram Budanov
Ukrainian anarchist (1886–1929)
Abram Efremovich Budanov (Ukrainian: Абрам Єфремович Буданов ; sometimes spelled as Abraham; 1886–1929) was a Ukrainian anarchist military commander, as a member of the Makhnovist movement in Donbas and a permanent member of the RIAU's Military Revolutionary Council.
Biography
Born in 1882 in the village of Stary Krym, in Mariupol, he also received four classes here.
He joined the anarcho-communists in 1905, took part in the Revolution of 1905–1907 in Luhansk. In 1917–1918, he was involved in organizing anarcho-syndicalist trade unions among Donbas miners, then he participated in the underground struggle against the Ukrainian State of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky.
In the spring of 1919 he joined the Makhnovist movement. In August 1919, he organized and led the Makhnovist uprising in units of the red 58th Division. On 1 September 1919, Abram was elected to the revolutionary military council of the RIAU in the village of Dobrovelichkovka.
In the RIAU he commanded the 1st Don Brigade, which was later transformed into a corps (1919), led the partisan struggle in Kharkov and Donetsk provinces (1920) and was a member of the Council of Revolutionary Insurgents of Ukraine.
On the evening of 23 February 1920, he arrived with the Makhnovists in Gavrilovka, Budanov called a meeting in the village and pasted leaflets with his own hand. At the end of 17–18 March, in the village of Bolshaya Yanisol, he conducted political and propaganda work.
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