"Boris Shebeko was a White Army junior officer in the Russian Civil War who eventually immigrated to the United States, where he became an engineer for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in engineering. He was born in 1900 in Poland and grew up in Odessa, Ukraine. He began receiving military training at the age of ten in light of the expectation to follow in the footsteps of his military father. He had just begun officers’ training when the February Revolution of 1917 occurred, and following the onset of the October Revolution, he fled to southern Russia. Until 1922 he fought for the White forces, soldiers who eventually became émigrés in China as they retreated across Siberia. In this interview, Shebeko discusses his experiences as a soldier in both southern Russia and Siberia, the Khabarovsk campaign, his life as an émigré in China and the United States, and the presence of Russians in California during the twentieth century. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting Russian émigrés in California. "