Vasily Korotkov (Василий Коротков; Vasely Krotokoff; Koratkoff; Keratkoff)
Member of the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested Seattle, December 1919. Deported February 1, 1921.
FBI file OG 389407
Gregory Koroviansky (aka George Karoff)
Born 1891, Russia. Laborer. 1912 migrated to Argentina; 1914 migrated to US. Wife and child in Russia. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Buffalo in 1919. Arrested during first Palmer Raids, November, 1919. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/145
Anton Korshikov (Антон Коршиков; Tony Korscheikoff; Korschikoff)
Born 1895, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Laborer. Migrated to US 1914. Described himself as “a fugitive from Czarism.” Arrested and beaten while attending arithmetic class at the Union of Russian Workers’ People’s House in New York during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/455
Wacław Kosiorek
Born 1894, Russian Poland. Polish. Laborer. 1914 joined Detroit’s Polish Branch No. 8 of the Socialist Party, which transferred into the Communist Party. Arrested December 29, 1919. “Voluntary departure” to Russia via Canada and England, 1920.
INS file 54709/860
Mike Koslick
Deported to Russia on February 1, 1921.
Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G
Logvin Kostevich (Логвин Костевич; Lenohon; aka Louis Kostevich)
Born 1894, Povusk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Ukrainian. Laborer. Migrated to US 1912. Joined the “Russian Workmen’s Organization” in Baltimore, 1917; 1919 transferred into Branch No. 2 if the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/420
Gabriel Kosticovitch (Kosticowitsc)
Born 1882, Russia. Migrated to US 1916. Member of Russian Branch No. 3, Communist Party of America, in Detroit. Arrested during second Palmer Raids, January 1920. “Voluntary departure” via Canada, October 16, 1920.
FBI file 202600-1380-1
Konstantin Koszko
Born c.1897, Zasieki, Russia (in present-day Poland). Anarchist. Migrated to US 1913. Butcher; meatpacker. Became an anarchist c. 1917. Joined the Anarchist-Communist Groups of the United States and Canada. Arrested in Cleveland, February 1921. When asked to define what an anarchist is, answered: “An Anarchist is a man who understands the ‘Blood-suckers’ of the world and its parasites, who are a menace to society, and understanding that, no man can be anything else but an Anarchist.” Deported to Russia March 18, 1921.
INS file 55009/23
Anton Kotiak (Антон Котяк)
Born 1895, Russia. Laborer. Migrated to US 1913. Drafted into US Army November 1918 but honorably discharged March 1919 at his request as an unnaturalized alien. Joined the Bridgeport, Connecticut branch of the Union of Russian Workers circa September 1919. Arrested Hartford, Connecticut during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/386; FBI file OG 389393
Maxwell Kotick (Максвелл Котик; Kotik; Kutick)
Born c. 1890, Russia. Jewish. Widower. Migrated to US 1910. Clerk. Literate in English, Yiddish, Russian, and German. Joined the Socialist Party in 1912, then October 1919 transferred to Philadelphia’s Russian Brach of the Communist Party. Arrested January 2, 1920. Deported to Russia February 1, 1921.
INS file 54810/820; FBI file OG 389320
Dionisiy Ivanovich Koval (Дионисий Иванович Коваль; Daniel Kowal; Danny Cowas)
Born 1884, Russia. Laborer. Migrated to Canada 1913; migrated to US 1914. Wife and two children in Russia. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in New York in 1919; escaped arrest during Palmer Raids on Russian People’s House in November 1919; relocated to Waterbury, Connecticut, where he joined the Union of Russian Citizens (an umbrella organization for Russian progressives). Arrested March 1920. Deported January 22, 1921.
FBI file OG 384417
Foma Koval (Фома Коваль; Tom; Coval)
Born 1891, Russia. Belarusian (Ruthenian). Migrated to US 1913. Blacksmith. Joined Buffalo’s Russian Branch of the Socialist Party, then joined the Communist Party in September 1919. Deported to Russia, February 26, 1921.
INS file 554809/438
Fedor Kovalchuk (Федор Ковальчук; Kowalchuk)
Member of the Communist Party of America in Philadelphia. Deported to Russia, February 1, 1921.
Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G
See also: Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1921
Evgraf Kovalenko (Евграф Коваленко; Efgram; Kovaleko; aka E. Koval)
Born 1885, Russia. Migrated to England 1906, then Germany; 1912 migrated to Canada; from there migrated to US 1917. Wife and two children in Russia. Member of the Union of Russian Workers in Pittsburgh, where he was “known by the police department and officers of the Bureau of Investigation as one of the worst radicals in the city.” Arrested May, 1919. Deported on the Buford.
At unknown date, sentenced to internal exile (with wife and children) in Omsk region of Siberia.
INS file 54616/176; FBI file OG 8000-360780
Feodosiy Kovalenko (Феодосий Коваленко; Fedisiw Kovalenko; Feodosew; Feodosy; aka Fred Konert)
Born 1892, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Laborer. Migrated to Canada 1911; then to US 1915. Joined the Union of Russian Workers Branch No. 2 in Detroit in February 1918; distributor of Russian anarchist and IWW publications. Arrested May 1919. Deported January 22, 1921.
Appears to have illegally returned to the US, as he was an active member of Detroit’s Dielo Truda Group in 1939, and at that time was considered a “comrade…capable of doing great work of the organizational-educational type in the movement.”
INS file 54616/187; FBI file OG 369234
See also: Lazar Lipotkin, The Russian Anarchist Movement in North America
