The biography of Safyanov

Safyanov Innokenty Georgievich - revolutionary, public figure Innocent Georgievich Safyanov - a man who left a deep mark in the history of Tuva and Minusinsk. Innocent Safyanov was born in the year in the city of Irkutsk, where his mother, Pelageya Ivanovna, came to bow to the relics of St. Innocent. His father, Georgy Pavlovich, merchant, gold miner, Minusinsk entrepreneur was known for his liberalism, great social activity and a living interest in science.

With many of the Minusinsk exiles, he was in the most friendly relations Kropotkin, Clementz, Tyrkov, etc. This communication for the children of G. Safyanov did not pass without a trace. Thanks to their influence, I still proved myself a sedit work in the school bench and at the age of 15 was excluded from the 4th grade of the Krasnoyarsk gymnasium for the distribution of illegal literature and the publication of the forbidden school newspaper, ”wrote Innocent Georgievich in his autobiography in the year.

Further studies could be forgotten. Georgy Pavlovich, having received a strict suggestion for his son, sends him to Tuva to one of his trade factor. Here he spends his youthful years, "replenishing meager knowledge by reading books and countless travels with the trade caravans of his father throughout the Uryanhai Territory and Mongolia neighboring him." Innokenty Georgievich was fascinated by the nature of this fertile corner of Central Asia, met the language and life of the Tuvan people.

In the first winter held in Tuva, he saves the starving Uryanheans, giving them a croupwood for free, stored on his father's factories. In the city of Safyanov, he met a prominent revolutionary F. for a year and a half, spent with him, finally determined the political views of Innocent. He breaks with the environment in which he was born and raised, and connects his life with a revolutionary movement.

He helped the exiles get a job, found funds for organizing shoots. Close up closely with the Minusinsk link, which issued the Minusinsk Leaflet, Innokenty became its editor. Placed revolutionary material in it, wrote articles himself, condemning the policy of tsarism. For this was sent to Minusinsk, and then arrested and imprisoned. After the February Revolution, he was released and chosen a member of the public security committee, the prison commissar and the mayor.

In April, he has been leaving more than once and returns to this region. In total, Innocent Georgievich lived in Tuva with small interruptions for more than thirty years. He perfectly mastered the Tuvan language. He dreamed that she would become a rich independent country with a highly developed cultural livestock. And he promoted his idea for a long time and persistently. He played one of the key roles in the formation of the Republic of Tannu-Tuva-the first independent state in the history of Tuva, created in August.

Safyanov, a lover in this amazing land, wrote poems, stories about him, collected and edited the oral traditions of the Tuvan “Buzanchi” and dreamed of publishing a book where oral folk art would be represented. He saw the light only after 60 decades thanks to the efforts of the National Museum. Aldan-Maadyr of the Republic of Tuva and the Tuvan Institute of Humanitarian Research.

Safyanov himself chose the path of the defender of the weak and oppressed, the path of complete deprivation and difficult trials. And he never complained and did not turn off him. He was a seditious for the Government of the Russian Empire, but he was not in particular mercy of the Soviet regime for his views on Tuva's self -determination. Nevertheless, his authority among the working class put forward the Innocent Georgievich to leading positions.

In gg. There he worked on economic work - the chairman of the collective farm, the district consumer union in the Usinsky district, and later became a personal pensioner.

Everywhere and always accompanied and supported by his wife - Anna Mikhailovna. It was she who pulled the Innocent Georgievich in the city of she was a doctor from God. Safyanova leaves for Moscow, where Innokenty Georgievich worked in the horse -drawer. But soon he was seriously ill and was forced to retire. The Safyanovs move to the city of Vyazniki, then to the Ryazan region.

For a long time lived in the Krasnaya Polyana of the Adler district. Innocent Georgievich died at the age of 80 in the city of Posinskaya, a memorial plaque “The House of the Safyanovs was installed - the venerable apartment of the Minusinsk Bolsheviks. The figures of the Minusinsk commune I. lived here Safyanovs, organizer of the Union of Worker Youth Boris Safyanov.

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