Pavel Evgen'evich Lazimir (25 June 1891 in Novy Peterhof – 17 May 1920

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) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet military leader. A prominent Left Socialist-Revolutionary, he later joined the

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and headed a soldier section of the Petrograd Soviet and was the Chairman of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee during the

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. Prior to being elected to the Petrograd Soviet, he served as a feldsher (

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) at the Petrograd military hospital. He died of

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in 1920.Encyclopedie Marxiste
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