Biography
Grigory Varfolomeevich Gorbich was born 1896 in Brest or Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus).
Became an anarchist in 1916 and joined the Union of Russian Workers. Deported to Poland on January 22, 1921.
In 1922 arrested for illegally crossing the Polish border into Soviet territory and subsequently settled in Petrograd. He was arrested again in July 1923 and sentenced to two years of internal exile away from major cities and border regions. In 1925 he was again arrested and sentenced to an additional three years of internal exile.
Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.
