Turzhansky Boris

Boris was born in Smolensk in February 1900. From 1910 to 1913 he studied at the 1st Smolensky real college, and then went to school. In 1915 the family moved to Moscow Turzhansky. Here Boris went to study at art school. Hab private lessons. In 1917, Boris Turzhansky worked as an assistant to the artist. Immediately after the victory of the October Revolution, he went as a volunteer in the Red Army.

He served as a telephone aviation detachment stationed at the station Gnezdovo, near Smolensk, fought with the White Army and interventionists in the Civil War. In June 1919, at the southern front BA. Turzhansky admitted to the ranks of the Communist Party.