Former Young Communist International executive shot as a supposed leader of the 'Leningrad Centre'
Born in St Petersburg, he joined the party in 1921. After heading a department of the Leningrad provincial Komsomol committee and serving as secretary of the Vyborg district Komsomol committee, he sat on the Executive Committee of the Young Communist International and the Komsomol Central Committee bureau in 1924–1926, and was sent to Germany and Austria as its representative. A member of the 'New Opposition', he was expelled by the Fifteenth Congress in 1927, readmitted in 1929, and then studied at the Leningrad Industrial Institute. Arrested on 5 December 1934, four days after Kirov's assassination, he was tried with Nikolaev in the 'Leningrad Centre' case and shot on 29 December after being sentenced to death. He was rehabilitated in 1990.
Activities and affiliations
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1921–1934
Soviet Communist Party and BolsheviksMain
Social movements and organizing- Secretary of the Vyborg district Komsomol committee
Career Timeline
- 1921Joined the party
- 1924–1926Member of the Young Communist International Executive and the Komsomol Central Committee bureau
- 1927.12.18Expelled for opposition activity by the Fifteenth Congress
- 1929.01Readmitted; enrolled at the Leningrad Industrial Institute
- 1934.12.05Arrested in the 'Leningrad Centre' case
- 1934.12.29Sentenced to death and shot