An administrator swept into the Leningrad purge
“I sincerely repent and ask you to give me the opportunity to atone,” he said in his final statement.
Filipp Mikheyev was a Soviet Communist Party official whose work centered on administration and practical management in the Leningrad party organization. He took part in the city’s wartime defense, yet the postwar purge reached beyond its prominent leaders to officials who kept the organization functioning. Tried with the central defendants in the Leningrad Affair, he received a ten-year sentence and was rehabilitated in 1954 after investigators’ unlawful methods were found to have produced the confessions.
Career Timeline
- 1902Born in Chernoyarovo, Tver Governorate
- 1923Studied at the Pskov Soviet Party school
- 1924–1926Served in the Red Army
- 1926Joined the Communist Party
- 1936–1940Deputy secretary and first secretary of the Detskoye Selo district party committee
- 1940–1949Administrative director of the Leningrad city and oblast party committees
- 1941–1944Participated in the defense of Leningrad
- 1950–1954Sentenced to ten years in the Leningrad Affair and rehabilitated in 1954