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Benyamin Nikolayevich Kayurov (Russian:Вениами́н Никола́евич Каю́ров; 1876–1936) was aRussianBolshevik revolutionary.
Kayorov was a working class Bolshevik militant who joined theRussian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1900, and adhering to the Bolshevik faction from 1903. By the time of theFebruary Revolution, he was working in theEricsson factory inVyborg,St Petersburg. In his History of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky describes Kayurov's involvement in a demonstration that was shot at by the police during the February Revolution:
A worker-Bolshevik, Kayurov, one of the authentic leaders in those days, [February 1917] relates how at one place, within sight of a detachment of Cossacks, the demonstrators scattered under the whips of the mounted police, and how he, Kayurov, and several workers with him, instead of following the fugitives, took off their caps and approached the Cossacks with the words: 'Brothers-Cossacks, help the workers in a struggle for their peaceable demands; you see how the Pharaohs [police] treat us, hungry workers. Help us!'[1]
WhenVladimir Lenin was forced into hiding during theJuly Days, the first hiding place he used was Kayurov's apartment. During theRussian Civil War, he led a detachment ofPetrograd workers on theKazan Front. He was on the General Staff of theFifth Army in charge of the political section.[2]
Following his involvement in theRyutin Affair in 1932, he was expelled from theCommunist Party. Then in 1936 he refused to confess to a list of crimes and was shot.