Party master of the Azov-Black Sea krai, brought down on the eve of the Great Terror
An Old Bolshevik who joined the party in 1914, he ran collectivization and grain requisitioning as first secretary of the Lower Volga and then the North Caucasus krai, where the 'blacklist' repressions of the Kuban in 1932 bear his name. First secretary of the Azov-Black Sea krai from 1934, he was encircled when Yevdokimov arrived in late 1936 to purge the 'Sheboldaev clan', with Lyushkov running the regional NKVD. Demoted to Kursk after the February-March 1937 plenum, he was arrested that June and shot in October.
Career Timeline
- 1914Joined the Bolsheviks
- 1918–1920Political work in the Caucasus during the Civil War
- 1928–1931First secretary, Lower Volga krai
- 1931–1934First secretary, North Caucasus krai
- 1934–1937First secretary, Azov-Black Sea krai
- 1937Demoted to Kursk; arrested in June, shot in October