Alexander Ivanovich Ugarov

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Alexander Iwanowitsch Ugarow ( Russian Александр Иванович Угаров ; * 31 August July / 13 September  1900 greg. In the village of Bogorodskoje , Moscow governorate ; † February 25, 1939 in Moscow ) was a Soviet functionary who held high offices in the CPSU Since 1934 on the XVII. CPSU party congress candidate of the Central Committee , since 1937 deputy of the Leningrad district of Smolny in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and since 1938 member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Life

Alexander Ugarow joined the CPSU in 1918, fought as a Red Army soldier in the Russian Civil War from 1919 to 1921 and then worked until 1923 as a functionary in his party. In 1926 he graduated from the Institute of the Red Professorship as an economist and then taught at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute . From 1927 he was again a functionary of the CPSU and at the same time editor of the newspaper "Leningrad Pravda". Together with Zhdanov he was from March 5, 1935 to February 19, 1938 Second Secretary of the Leningrad City Party Committee and since February 10, 1938 First Secretary of the Moscow City and Regional Party Committee.

Alexander Ugarov was arrested on October 20, 1938, sentenced and shot on February 25, 1939. On February 17, 1956 - during the Khrushchev thaw - he was posthumously rehabilitated.

Vladimir (1922–1977) and Sergej, born in 1936, are the two sons of the couple Alexander Ugarow and Emilija Jakowlewna Elkina.

Contemporaries

  • Leonid Leonov recalls a winged word from Ugarov: “I cannot answer this question immediately. The party has not yet decided. "
  • Sergei Dovlatov chats about Ugarov's illegitimate son in his memoir.
  • In his memoirs, Grigori Issajewitsch Grigorow (Monastyrski) depicts Ugarow as a Bukharin follower.

literature

Trivia

Years later, Alexander Ugarov's Moscow apartment moved into Nikita Simonjan .

Web links

Remarks

  1. Ugarov's son Sergei claimed that the father had become first secretary in Moscow on the recommendation of Shdanov (Inna Rudjenko: interview on July 31, 2006 in Komsomolskaya Pravda ).
  2. The novel Years of Terror by Anatoly Rybakov is a narrative analysis of the Stalin Purges . The author adds a documentary ending to the 16th chapter of the novel. Rybakov writes: "All of Kirov's comrades in arms ... were liquidated ...: Tschudow , Kodazki , Alexejew , Smorodin , Posern , Ugarow and Struppe ..." (Rybakow, p. 208, 10. Zvo)

Individual evidence

  1. Russian Богородское
  2. Russian Smolninskoje
  3. Russian Leningrad Pravda
  4. Russian Sergej Alexandrowitsch Ugarow
  5. Russian Natalja Leonova
  6. Russian Dowlatow Memoirs, Chapter 9
  7. Russian Grigori Issajewitsch Grigorow
  8. Russian Grigori Issajewitsch Grigorow (Monastyrski) Memoirs, Chapter 4