Yuri Konstantinowitsch Sokolow

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Yuri Konstantinowitsch Sokolow ( Russian Юрий Константинович Соколов ; December 3, 1923 , † December 14, 1984 in Moscow ) was a Soviet retail functionary .

Career

Until 1982 Sokolow was director of the food company Gastronom No. 1 , the former delicatessen store Jelissejew in Moscow , which mainly supplied the Soviet nomenclature with delicacies. Gastronom No. 1 was the flagship of the Moscow Gastronomy Trade Cooperative and a large company with 1,000 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 100 million rubles. In this position he was able to build up an extensive network of relationships, among others he was friends with the daughter of General Secretary Brezhnev . He made his wife the deputy director of the GUM department store with responsibility for food and gastronomy.

arrest

Sokolov was arrested along with his wife on November 9, 1982, the day before Leonid Brezhnev's death and shortly before General Secretary Andropov , the former chairman of the KGB , took office . Washington Post head of the Moscow office, Dusko Doder, reported that while searching Sokolov's apartment in a hiding place, police found $ 4 million worth of money. According to a report by the Izvestia newspaper , he was accused of accepting bribes over a long period of time and of abusing his official position in organizing a criminal group to move food. As a result of Sokolov's arrest, a wave of arrests set in, during which several hundred employees of state-owned companies were arrested. The head of the Moscow Commercial Administration (Glawtorg) Nikolai Petrovich Tregubov was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1986. It is certain that Andropov used the anti-corruption campaign to weaken the followers of his predecessor Brezhnev. Sokolov was sentenced to death for his crimes and a petition for clemency was rejected. In 1984 he was executed by shooting .

literature

  • William A. Clark: Crime and punishment in Soviet officialdom: combating corruption in the political elite, 1965-1990. ME Sharpe, 1993, ISBN 978-1-56324055-3 , pp. 185 ff
  • Albert J. Schmidt: The Impact of perestroika on Soviet law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1990, ISBN 978-0-79230621-4 , p. 529
  • Luc Duhamel: The KGB campaign against corruption in Moscow, 1982–1987. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8229-6108-6
  • Luc Duhamel: Justice and politics in Moscow 1983–1986: The Ambartsumyan case. In: Europe-Asia Studies , vol. 52, no.7 (November 2000), pp. 1307-1329.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Frankland: The sixth continent: Russia and the making of Mikhail Gorbachov , (new edition) Harpercollins, 1988, ISBN 978-0-0609153-46 , p. 151
  2. ^ Christian Schmidt-Hauser, John Man: Gorbachev: the path to power. IB Tauris, 1986, ISBN 978-1-85043015-5 , p. 79
  3. ^ Dusko Doder: Power struggle in the Kremlin. Background to the change from Brezhnev to Gorbachev. Verlag Bonn Aktuell 1988. ISBN 978-3-87959339-2
  4. ↑ Indirect citations from: William A. Clark: Crime and punishment in Soviet officialdom: combating corruption in the political elite, 1965-1990. P. 185
  5. ↑ Timothy J. Colton: Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis , Harvard University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-67458749-6 , p. 569
personal data
SURNAME Sokolow, Yuri Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соколов, Юрий Константинович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet retail functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1923
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1984
Place of death Moscow