Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin

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Smorodin among the delegates of the 8th Congress (1919)

Peter Ivanovich Smorodin ( Russian Пётр Иванович Смородин * January 1897 in the village Borinskoje , Voronezh Governorate today Lipetsk region ; † 25. February 1939 in Stalingrad ), was a high Soviet party functionary - since 1930 candidate of the Central Committee of the CPSU - and one of the founders of the Komsomol .

Life

The son of the farmer Ivan Sotowitsch Smorodin and his wife Anna Petrovna Lebedewa worked in a St. Petersburg factory for surgical instruments since 1911 , joined the RSDLP in May 1917 (B) and was one of the founders and first chairman of the Socialist Union of Workers' Youth (SSRM (Russian ССРМ)). In February 1918 Pyotr Smorodin commanded the partisan detachment of the SSRM. He took part in the Russian Civil War as a regiment commissar . From 1920 Pyotr Smorodin was a member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and secretary of the Petrograd Regional Committee of the Komsomol. From April 5, 1922 to July 18, 1924 he was general secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. In 1928 Pyotr Smorodin completed Marxist courses at the Moscow "Communist Academy". 1928–1937 he worked in Leningrad as secretary of various municipal district committees of the Communist Party.

1937–1938 Pyotr Smorodin was secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Party Committee of the CPSU and in 1937 deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .

In Leningrad and Stalingrad he was a member of the troika that sentenced " enemies of the people " to death .

In June 1938, Pyotr Smorodin was arrested, sentenced and shot on February 25, 1939 as an enemy of the people.

In 1956, during the Khrushchev thaw , he was posthumously rehabilitated.

Pyotr Smorodin and his wife Aljona Andreyeva had a daughter - Maja Petrovna Smorodina.

Honors

  • Order of the Red Banner
  • In 1968 a Leningrad street was named after Smorodin.
  • There is Pyotr Smorodin Street in Lipetsk.

literature

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annotation

  1. ↑ 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 Borinskoje
  2. ↑ Russian Communist Academy
personal data
SURNAME Smorodin, Pyotr Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пётр Иванович Смородин (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet party official
DATE OF BIRTH January 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Borinskoye , Lipetsk region
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1939
Place of death Stalingrad