Second issue. On the pages of passport booklets.
On June 18, 1924, by a resolution of the USSR Central Executive Committee, upon the petition of the Central Executive Committee of the Crimean ASSR, Crimea was declared unreliable due to banditry. In view of this, the Crimean GPU launched a broad campaign against banditry across the entire territory. During the period of special powers in Crimea, a monarchist-bandit organization called the “Crimean штаб of peasant associations” was eliminated; it numbered more than 300 people and was led by the ataman Ugrenyuk, acting on the instructions of Nikolai Nikolaevich. The entire leadership of the organization and 95% of its members were arrested and, during the investigation, confessed.
At the same time, a criminal-political gang connected with the above-mentioned organization was eliminated; in fact, it served as its terrorist detachment and carried out a number of raids, robberies, and murders of communists and Chekists, as well as another gang of the same kind, with exactly the same functions and crimes. Among the captured bandits were criminals known in Crimea and in Ukraine: Lokhmatov, Kuzmenko, Orlik, and others.
In addition, all raids that had recently become more frequent—committed against resort patients and peasants traveling along the highway—were solved. Twelve participants were captured, who also confessed during the investigation.
At present, thanks to the Crimean GPU’s firm struggle against both political and criminal banditry, Crimea can be considered cleared of the latter.