14 août 1916 - Verny uprising

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According to Tynyshbaev, the first incident took place on 3 August in the Kyzylboruk (Kyzylburovskaia) volost’ in the eastern part of the Vernyi district, where the assistant head of the district, Khlynovskii, accompanied by the District Police Captain Kulaev and fifteen soldiers and policemen, took several Kazakh dignitaries hostage in an effort to force the volost’ to produce the lists within five hours.55 After approaching Khlynovskii on at least three different occasions with the request to release the arrested and to delay the draft, the crowd grew increasingly impatient. In what seems to have been an attempt to disperse the crowd, Khlynovskii fired into the air; mistaking it for a signal to shoot, his men fired into the crowd, killing two Kazakhs. As the angry crowd surrounded the station in response to the shooting, one of the protesters, armed with a hunting rifle, killed a policeman. A punitive expedition consisting of a Cossack cavalry squadron and a half-company was despatched to the area on the same day. Collapsing p153

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