Vasily Korotkov (a.k.a. Krotokoff; Koratkoff; Keratkoff)
Born: c. 1875, Saratov Oblast, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation:
Migration: Immigrated to US 1909
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
His wife remained in Russia while he emigrated. In the U.S. he joined the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested in Seattle in December 1919 and deported to Russia on February 1, 1921.
Sources: INS file 54860/526; FBI file OG 389407.
Gregory Koroviansky (a.k.a. George Karoff)
Born: 1891, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Migrated to Argentina 1912; then to US 1914
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Buffalo in 1919. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919 and deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919. His wife and child remained in Russia.
Sources: INS file 54709/145.
Anton Korshikov (a.k.a. Tony Korschikoff)
Born: 1895, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Belarusian
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1914
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Described himself as “a fugitive from Czarism.” He was arrested and beaten while attending an arithmetic class at the Union of Russian Workers’ People’s House in New York during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919 and was deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.
Sources: INS file 54709/455.
Wacław Kosiorek
Born: 1894, Russian Poland
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Polish
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US year unknown
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
Joined Detroit’s Polish Branch No. 8 of the Socialist Party in 1914, which later transferred into the Communist Party. Arrested December 29, 1919 and “voluntarily departed” on October 16, 1920, traveling to Russia via Canada and England.
Sources: INS file 54709/860.
Mike Koslick
Born: c. 1889, Pyatigorsk, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Weaver
Migration: Immigrated to US 1911
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
Joined the Socialist Party in Philadelphia in 1918 and then the city’s First Russian Branch of the Communist Party in 1919. Arrested in January 1920, he declared, “I am willing to go back to Russia if the Government will deport me.” Seported on February 1, 1921 aboard the SS Estonia. He was married, though records are unclear whether his wife resided in Russia or the United States.
Sources: INS file 54811/936.
Logvin Kostevich (a.k.a. Lenohon or Louis Kostevich)
Born: 1894, Povusk, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Ukrainian
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1912
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Joined the “Russian Workmen’s Organization” in Baltimore in 1917 and transferred in 1919 into Branch No. 2 of the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919 and deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.
Sources: INS file 54709/420.
Gabriel Kosticovitch (pr Kosticowitsc)
Born: 1882, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation:
Migration: Immigrated to US 1916
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
A member of Russian Branch No. 3 of the Communist Party of America in Detroit. Arrested during the second Palmer Raids in January 1920, he “voluntarily departed” the United States via Canada on October 16, 1920.
Sources: FBI file 202600-1380-1.
Konstantin Koszko
Born: c. 1897, Zasieki, Russia (present-day Poland)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Polish
Occupation: Butcher; meatpacker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Anarchist
Became an anarchist around 1917 and joined the Anarchist-Communist Groups of the United States and Canada. Arrested in Cleveland in February 1921, he defined anarchism by stating: “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 on March 18, 1921.
Sources: INS file 55009/23.
Anton Kotiak
Born: 1895, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Drafted into the US Army in November 1918 but honorably discharged in March 1919 at his request as an unnaturalized alien. Around September 1919 he joined the Bridgeport, Connecticut branch of the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested in Hartford during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he was deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.
Sources: INS file 54709/386; FBI file OG 389393.
Maxwell Kotick (a.k.a. Kotik; Kutick)
Born: c. 1890, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Jewish
Occupation: Clerk
Migration: Immigrated to US 1910
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
A widower who was literate in English, Yiddish, Russian, and German. He joined the Socialist Party in 1912 and transferred in October 1919 to the Russian Branch of the Communist Party in Philadelphia. Arrested January 2, 1920, he was deported to Russia on February 1, 1921.
Sources: INS file 54810/820; FBI file OG 389320.
Dionisiy Ivanovich Koval (a.k.a. Daniel Kowal; Danny Cowas)
Born: 1884, Lutsk Raion, Russia (present-day Ukraine)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Ukrainian
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Migrated to Canada 1913; then to US 1914
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Joined the Union of Russian Workers in New York in 1919 and escaped arrest during the Palmer Raids on the Russian People’s House in November of that year. He relocated to Waterbury, Connecticut, where he joined the Union of Russian Citizens (an umbrella organization for Russian progressives). Arrested in March 1920, he was deported on January 22, 1921. His wife and two children remained in Russia.
Sources: INS file 54861/332; FBI file OG 384417.
Foma Koval (a.k.a. Tom Coval)
Born: 1891, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Belarusian
Occupation: Blacksmith
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
Joined Buffalo’s Russian Branch of the Socialist Party of America, then the Communist Party of America in September 1919. Deported to Russia on February 26, 1921.
Sources: INS file 554809/438.
Fedor Kovalchuk (a.k.a. Kowalchuk; O.K. Ovalchuk, Olvanichuk)
Born: 1900, Lachka, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Autoworker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1914
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
A member of the Communist Party of America in Philadelphia. He was deported to Russia on February 1, 1921.
Sources: INS file 54811/967; Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1921.
Evgraf Kovalenko (a.k.a. Efgram; Kovaleko; E. Koval)
Born: 1885, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation:
Migration: Migrated to England 1906; then to Germany; then Canada 1912; and finally to US 1917
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
His wife and two children remained in Russia. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Pittsburgh and was described by local authorities as “one of the worst radicals in the city.” Arrested in May 1919, he was deported aboard the Buford on December 21 of that year.
At an unknown later date, he and his family were sentenced to internal Russian exile in the Omsk region of Siberia.
Sources: INS file 54616/176; FBI file OG 8000-360780; https://ru.openlist.wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87.
Feodosiy Kovalenko (a.k.a. Fred Konert)
Born: 1892, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Belarusian
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Migrated to Canada 1911; then to US 1915
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Joined Branch No. 2 of the Union of Russian Workers in Detroit in February 1918 and distributed Russian anarchist and IWW publications. Arrested in May 1919, he was deported January 22, 1921.
He appears to have illegally returned to the United States, where in 1939 he was active in Detroit’s Dielo Truda Group and described as a comrade “capable of doing great work of the organizational-educational type in the movement.”
Sources: INS file 54616/187; FBI file OG 369234; Lazar Lipotkin, The Russian Anarchist Movement in North America.
