railroad, which, however, faced opposition from the Provisional Government and he was commissioned back to Petrograd. In May 1917, P. Kobozev was elected to the Petrograd City Duma from the Bolsheviks, and was appointed the chief inspector over the educational institutions of the Ministry of Transport. Dutov's Revolt On the next day of the October Revolution (26 October), the Cossack Ataman Alexander Dutov claimed power in the Orenburg region. The Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries approved of it, but the Bolsheviks opposed. Eventually, the supporters of A. Dutov had taken over in the region. P. Kobozev was appointed the extraordinary commissar for fighting Dutov's counterrevolution. On 12 November 1917, P. Kobozev secretly came to Orenburg. He had a coordination meeting with the local Bosheviks and left the city for Buzuluk, from where they planned the offensive. However, only in January 1918, Kobozev's troops managed to get Orenburg back to the Soviet authorities. P. Kobozev drove one of the armored trains himself. Turkestan and the Far East After the Orenburg campaign, P. Kobozev was sent to Baku to nationalize the local oil industry, as well as transport Turkestan oil to Central Russia. V. Lenin entrusted P. Kobozev with 200 million rubles to support Bolsheviks in Orenburg, Baku and Tashkent. The task was successfully fulfilled and the oil was sent to Russia. In May 1918 he was elected First President of the Central Executive Committee of Turkestan Soviet Federative Republic and a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Turkestan Front. Soon he was called out back to Moscow and appointed the Minister of Transport, where he was in office until 13 June 1918. In September 1918 – April 1919 he was a member of the all-Russian Revolutionary Military Council. In February 1919 he was appointed chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Being in Turkestan he actively organized building of schools and Turkestan People's University, where in 1919 he gave lectures on energetics. On 4 October 1922, P. Kobozev was appointed the Prime Minister of the Far Eastern Republic, and remained in office until 14 November 1922. During his office the Far East became part of the Soviet Union. P. Kobozev signed the peace treaty between the Far Eastern Republic and Japan on behalf of the Soviet Union. Academic career In autumn 1923, the severely ill Pyotr Kobozev returned to Moscow and asked to