Georgy Stepanovich Nosar (aka Pyotr Alekseevich Khrustalev, pseudonym: Yuri Pereyaslavsky, 1877, Pereyaslav – 1919, ibid.) was a

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and

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, and assistant

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from the Russian Empire. From October to November 1905, he was the first chairman of the St. Petersburg Council of Workers' Deputies. He was born in Pereyaslav, then in the Russian Empire. Nosar supported the

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but opposed the

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. He worked with the Ukrainian Hetmanate during the

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and after being captured by

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soldiers, was executed for counter-revolutionary activity.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Khrustalev-Nosar, Georgy Stepanovich Assassinated Russian politicians 1877 births 1919 deaths People from Pereiaslav Lawyers from the Russian Empire Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Pseudonymous writers Syndicalists Mensheviks Russian syndicalists Jurists from the Russian Empire Saint Petersburg State University alumni Politicians assassinated in the 1910s