Zinovievite Komsomol leader shot in the 'Leningrad Centre' trial
From a workers' family, he joined the party in 1920. He served as secretary of the Leningrad provincial Komsomol committee and of the Komsomol Central Committee, sided with Zinoviev's 'New Opposition', and was expelled for factional activity by the Fifteenth Congress in 1927. Readmitted in 1928 after a full break with the opposition, he worked as a cadres officer at the Magnitostroi construction site and as a bookkeeper at a Leningrad factory. Arrested on 6 December 1934, five days after Kirov's assassination, he was tried with Nikolaev in the 'Leningrad Centre' case and shot on 29 December after the Military Collegium sentenced him to death. He was rehabilitated in 1990.
Activities and affiliations
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1920–1934
Soviet Communist Party and BolsheviksMain
Social movements and organizing- Secretary of the Leningrad provincial Komsomol committee
Career Timeline
- 1920Joined the party
- 1927.12.19Expelled for factional activity by the Fifteenth Congress
- 1928.10.26Readmission confirmed by the Central Control Commission
- 1931.04.01–1934.04.21Bookkeeper at the Slutskaya factory in Leningrad
- 1934.12.06Arrested in the 'Leningrad Centre' case
- 1934.12.29Sentenced to death by the Military Collegium and shot