Nestor Makhno
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Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.
Makhno in 1921
Butyrka prison, in Moscow, where Makhno was imprisoned from 1911 to 1917 (pictured in 2010)
Makhno (centre) and Fedir Shchus (right), together with other Insurgent command staff in Huliaipole (1919)
Makhno wearing his Red Army uniform (1919)
Huliaipole
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Huliaipole is a small city in Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. It is known as the birthplace of Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary Nestor Makhno. In January 2022, it had an estimated populat
Nestor Makhno
…establish anarchist communism in the country between 1918 and 1921. Initially centered around Makhno's home province of Katerynoslav and hometown of Huliaipole, it came to exert a strong influence over large areas of southern Ukraine, specifically in what is now the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of Ukraine. Anarchists…
Museum of Local Lore
Mass grave of 500 victims of Nazi Germany
Former boys' gymnasium
Old mill, originally owned by the German Krieger company