Grigory Okunev - white colonel, punisher and the division chief of staff in the First Cavalry Red Army
This research was conducted on the basis of previously unknown sources obtained in the State archive of the Russian Federation. They are published and introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The paper reflects previously unknown details of the murder of the famous “five” leaders of the first Council of workers’ deputies of Novo-Nikolaevsk in June 1918, episodes of the partisan war in the Altai, and the trial of one of the participants in this event, the Punisher, former Colonel of the White army Grigory Okunev. After 1919, he successfully continued his service in the red army, was able to prove himself well, receive awards from the Soviet government, and even the abolition of the sentence to capital punishment - execution