Frank A. Novenad
Deported to Czechoslovakia, May 8, 1920. No further information found.
Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G
Petr Novik (Петр Новик; Peter Novick; Nowick)
Born 1897, Grodno, Russia. Printer. Migrated to US 1914. 1918 joined the Union of Russian Workers in New York. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford. Subsequent activities unknown.
INS file 54709/119
Yakim Novik (Яким Новик; Noik)
Born 1884, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Miner. Migrated to US 1914. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Fairmont, West Virginia. Arrested December 2, 1919. According to immigration inspector, he “belongs to the most ignorant peasant type of White Russia…He has not sufficient intelligence, in my judgement, to become a dangerous anarchist but would probably be a blind follower if a leader of ability should arise to point the way. He is not a type of man that is now, or ever will be, of value to this country.” Deported on the Buford. Subsequent activities unknown.
INS file 54709/607
Ivan Novikov (Иван Новиков; Novikoff)
Born 1882, Rovennki, Russia. Printer. Migrated to US 1909. Employed as a linotype operator for the socialist newspaper Novy Mir. An anarchist and prominent figure in the Union of Russian Workers in New York. (He told authorities he joined the URW in 1917, but likely joined earlier.) The apartment in the Bronx that he and his wife and children shared with several borders was a meeting place for Russian anarchists. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids, November 1919. According to Alexander Berkman, “In Ellis Island he spent most of his time in the hospital. He refused to accept bail as long as the others arrested with him remained in prison. He consented only when almost at the point of death and then he was dragged to the boat to be deported.” Berkman also described him as “a man of intellectual attainment and much political acumen.” Deported on the Buford. During its voyage, elected to committee of deportees charged with negotiating with the immigration inspector on board for better conditions. His wife, E. Novikov, unsuccessfully petitioned to be deported with their children in order to rejoin him. In Russia, in April 1920, he told Berkman: “I can’t afford the luxury of expressing an opinion [on the Bolshevik’s action]…I have been promised a place on a commission to be sent to Europe. It’s my only chance of joining my wife and children.” May 1920 he departed for southern Russia, and in 1922 the US Department of Justice received information that he intended to illegally return to the US. However, he did not manage to leave Russia, and in 1932 he was sentenced to a three-year sentence at the forced labor camp in Kudymkor.
INS file 54709/111; FBI file OG 379190
See also: Alexander Berkman Papers, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam; Alexander Berkman, The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920-1922); G. P. Maximoff, The Guillotine at Work: Twenty Years of Terror in Russia (Data and Documents)
Alexander Noviksichi
Deported to Russia January 22, 1921. No further information found.
Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G
Peter Novokov (Петр Новоков; Pete; Novokoff)
Born 1890, Mogilev, Russia. Miner. Migrated to US 1913. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Monessen, Pennsylvania, in September 1918. Arrested on raid on Jamison Mine in Downs, West Virginia, during the first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/590; FBI file OG 8000-382461
Vikenti Nozevsky (Викенти Нозевский; Vincent Nozewski)
Deported to Russia January 22, 1921. No further information found.
Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G
