The only Siberian Decembrist, Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov, was born on March 25, 1793 in the large family of Ensign Stefan Gerasimovich Batenkov as the twentieth child. He studied at the Tobolsk Military Orphan School, and then at the gymnasium. After that, he continued his studies in the noble regiment at the second cadet corps in St. Petersburg.
He took part in the Patriotic War of 1812 and the foreign campaigns of the Russian army of 1813−1814. In 1819, Batenkov retired and began civil service.
For two years, from 1819−1820, he was an assistant to the prominent statesman Mikhail Speransky for the administration of Siberia, later became a member of the Council of military settlements under Count A.A. Arakcheev.
Gavriil Stepanovich participated in the development of the plan of the uprising on December 14, 1825, advocating decisive action and involvement of the masses in the uprising. He was planned as a candidate for the Provisional Government.
For his actions and views, he was convicted and placed in solitary confinement in the Peter and Paul Fortress in 1826. He was sent to settle in Tomsk in 1846, where he lived in the house of the official Best. After the amnesty of 1856, Batenkov lived in Kaluga. He left many original works (mostly unpublished) on the national economy, statistics, finance, law, ethnography, etc. He was an outstanding poet and author of critical articles. He died in October 1863 .
By the decision of the Tobolsk City Duma No. 12 of March 16, 1995, one of the streets in the "Builder" microdistrict was named after Batenkov.
