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Efimovich Dybenko (Ukrainian: Павло Дибенко, Russian: Павел
Ефимович Дыбенко) (February 16, 1889 – July 29, 1938) was a
Soviet revolutionary and a leading officer of Ukrainian descent.
Prior to military service[edit]  Pavel Dybenko was born in
Lyudkovo village, Novozybkov uyezd, Chernigov guberniya,
Imperial Russia (now Novozybkov, Bryansk Oblast, Russia) in an
ethnic Ukrainian Cossack peasant family. From 1907 onward,
Dybenko became active in a Bolshevik group. (The so-called
"Bolshevik group" was actually a local underground activist
group acquiring information from other democratic minded groups
in the town of Minsk. Dybenko, doing so at the behest of the
local underground activists, distributed progressive literature
throughout the Novozbykov region - progressive publications such
as the People’s Gazette and the Proletariat which spoke to anti-
Tsar sympathies.) He started working in the