Novenad to Nozevsky

Frank A. Novenad

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Nationality: Czechoslovakian
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Deported to Czechoslovakia as a radical on May 8, 1920. No further information has been found about his life or activities.

Source: INS file 54325/36G.

Petr Novik (a.k.a. Peter Novick; Nowick)

Born: 1897, Grodno, Russia
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Printer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1914
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers

Joined the URW in New York in 1918. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he was deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.

Source: INS file 54709/119.

Yakim Novik (or Noik)

Born: 1884, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Miner
Migration: Migrated to US 1914
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers

Joined the URW in Fairmont, West Virginia. Arrested December 2, 1919. According to an 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 on December 21, 1919.

Source: INS file 54709/607.

Ivan Novikov (or Novikoff)

Born: 1882, Rovennki, Russia
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Printer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1909
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers

Worked a a linotype operator for the socialist newspaper Novy Mir and was a prominent figure in the URW in New York. The Bronx apartment he shared with his family and boarders functioned as a meeting place for Russian anarchists. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he became seriously ill while detained at Ellis Island. According to Alexander Berkman, he refused bail until near death so as not to abandon fellow detainees. Deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.

During the Buford‘s voyage he was elected to a committee representing the deportees in negotiations with the authorities. In Russia in 1920 he sought a posting that might allow him to reunite with his family abroad. His wife Edith unsuccessfully petitioned to be deported with their children in order to rejoin him. Reports in 1922 suggested he hoped to return illegally to the United States, but he never succeeded. In 1932 he was sentenced to three years in a forced-labor camp in Kudymkar.

Sources: INS file 54709/111; FBI file OG 379190; 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 (a.k.a. Alex Novick)

Born: 1888, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: IWW; Union of Russian Workers

Belonged to both the IWW and the URW in Seattle. He was deported to Russia January 22, 1921.

Source: INS file 54860/428.

Peter Novokov (or Novokoff)

Born: 1890, Mogilev, Russia
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Miner
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers

Joined the URW in Monessen, Pennsylvania in September 1918. Arrested during a raid on the Jamison Mine in Downs, West Virginia, during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he was deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.

Sources: INS file 54709/590; FBI file OG 8000-382461.

Vikenti Nozevsky (a.k.a. Vincent Nozewski)

Born: Russia, year unknown
Nationality: Russian
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Deported to Russia as a radical on January 22, 1921. No additional information has been located.