Andrei Lukic Kolegayev () (22 March 1887 – 23 March 1937) was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary and later Soviet statesman who advocated an alliance with the

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. He was born in

Surgut Surgut ( rus, Сургу́т, p=sʊrˈgut; Khanty: Сәрханӆ, ''Sərhanł, Сө̆ркут, sörkut'') is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River near its junction with the Irtysh River. It is one of the fe ...

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in the family of an exiled

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revolutionary. Kolegayev joined the

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in 1906 and the following year he was expelled from Kharkov University. He was arrested four times and spent seven years in exile. He participated in the

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and was a delegate to the Second

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. He was People's Commissar for Agriculture from 23 December 1917 to 1 March 1918. The officials of the former Ministry of the Interim Government sabotaged the decisions the new government and declared a strike. He was given the post of Commissar of Agriculture, as he was a Left SR. In November 1918 he broke with the Left SRs and joined the

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. During 1918–1920 he was chairman of the Special prodkomissii and member of FAR Southern Front and in 1920–21 a member of the panel Narkomata communication. He was arrested as part of the

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on 23 March 1936 and shot on 23 March 1937. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.

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