He was one of the organizers of the Tashkent Rebellion (1917), a delegate to the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd in October 1917, where he was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, as well as one of the organizers of the armed uprising against the power of representatives of the provisional government in Tashkent in November 1917.
The actions of Fyodor Kolesov in the first year of the Civil War were sharply criticized by the prominent Red commander in the Turkestan Front, Yakov Melkumov in his memoirs.
[1] He wrote his memoirs about the Bukharan Revolution, about his prominent role in the establishment of Soviet power in Uzbekistan and Turkestan.
By decision of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, he was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery as an “Honored Revolutionary” (row 51, place 26).
Taking into account Kolesov's important personal role in establishing Soviet power in Central Asia, an honorary rifle salvo was fired at the funeral.