Alexander Ivanovich Milchakov

Alexander Ivanovich Milchakov ( Russian Александр Иванович Мильчаков ; born September 29 ^{. Jul} / 12. October 1903 ^greg. In Vyatka ; † 17th July 1973 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and functionary of the Soviet and international communist youth movement . He was Secretary General of the Komsomol from 1928 to 1929 .

Life

Milchakov, son of a railroad worker, joined the Socialist League of Workers' Youth in 1918 and in 1919 the Communist Party of Russia (Bolsheviks) . From 1919 he was secretary of the Perm Governorate Committee, later of the Verkhneuralsk City Committee of the Komsomol. In 1920 he was secretary of the Siberian office, from October 1921 secretary of the southeast office of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. Milchakov was one of the founders of the Komsomol in Siberia. From 1921 to 1925 he was a member, from 1925 to 1927 secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol . From July 1924 to March 1929 he was a member of the office of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. From October 1924 he was head of the agitation and propaganda department and the department for work in the village at the Komsomol Central Committee. In 1925 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International . 1927/28 he was general secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Ukrainian SSR . From November 1927 to June 1930 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU), and in 1927/28 also of the organizational office of the Central Committee of the KPU. From May 1928 to March 1929 he was finally general secretary of the all-Soviet Komsomol organization. 1930/1932 was the head of the party building department at the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Milchakov was a delegate of the II to IX. Congress of the Komsomol, as well as delegate of the XXII. up to and including XVII. Party congress of the KPR and the CPSU . On the XIV. (1925), XV. (1927) and XVI. (1930) at the party congress, he was elected to the central control commission of the party. Milchalkov was also a delegate of the 2nd to 5th World Congress of the Communist Youth International and in 1924 of the 5th World Congress of the Comintern .

From 1932 to 1938 he worked in a leading position in the gold industry, first as chairman of Baleizoloto ( Russian Балейзолото ), then as deputy administrator of the industrial complex Vostokzoloto ( Russian Востокзолото ) and finally as chairman of the main administration of gold and platinum production ( Russian Glawzoloto ) Главное управление золотоплатиновой промышленности, Главзолото ) at the Ministry of the Interior.

Milchakov was arrested in 1938 and spent a total of 15 years in camp. He was not rehabilitated until 1954. From 1954 to 1957 he was the head of the department for political-educational work in the main administration of labor reserves at the Council of Ministers of the USSR .

He is the author of the memoirs Первое десятилетие. Записки старого комсомольца ( The First Decade. Memories of an Old Komsomol , Moscow 1959).

Honors

Milchakov was awarded the Order of Lenin , the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and other medals.

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SURNAME	Milchakov, Alexander Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Мильчаков, Александр Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet politician and youth functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vyatka
DATE OF DEATH	17th July 1973
Place of death	Moscow