Ivan Sorokin

Following the execution, Sorokin established a reign of terror that demoralized the Red armies in the North Caucasus, which caused him to be declared a traitor on 27 October.

[2] A cossack from the Kuban region, Sorokin graduated from the Yekaterinodar military paramedic school and became a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in April 1917.

During the Kuban Offensive by the Volunteer Army, Sorokin led Bolshevik forces in the Northern Caucasus, replacing K. I. Kalnin and Alexei Ivanovich Avtonomov.

On 21 October, Sorokin then executed the four members of the Republic of the Northern Caucasus Military Revolutionary Soviet.

According to Peter Kenez, "Then started a reign of terror in Piatigorsk which was remarkable even by Civil War standards.

On 27 October, Sorokin was declared a traitor by the Bolshevik faction of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet in Nevinnomyssk.