Alex Bakulin Benediktovich

Alex Bakulin Benediktovich (24.03.1899, St. Petersburg - 07.03.1939), party and state leaders. Son mountain master. Educated at the military-political academic courses (1925) and in the eastern department Frunze Military Academy (1929). In 1917, a student at Miasskiy napilochnom plant, participated in the establishment of a local labor organization of the Union of Socialist Youth. In Feb.-May 1918, editor of Izvestiya Miass Council ". In 1918 joined the RKP (b) and the Red Army. In 1918-20 he served in various political departments, divisional commissioner. From 1924 he worked in the Political Administration of the Turkestan Front. In 1925-27, Vice-Consul at Hankow (China) and Deputy. early. group of advisers in China. In 1929, discharged from the army and joined the Foreign Office. In 1930-31 consul in Qiqihar (China), in 1931-32 executive assistant. Since 1932 transferred to the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) the position of assistant. Head. raspredotdelom. Since August. 1934 Deputy. early. Political Department of the Transcaucasian railway in Feb. 1934 POM. early. Political Department of People's Commissariat of Railways (People's Commissariat) Personnel. In December. 1934 - again in the Central Committee: Responsible Instructor Transport Department (Dec. 1934-April. 1935), Head. sector of the Southern road (April - July 1935). Since early June 1936. political department of the Moscow-Kazan railway in Nov.. 1936 - June 1937 beginning. Lenin railroad. In June 1935 Deputy. People's Commissar of Railways of the USSR for political. 22/08/1937 appointed People's Commissar of Railways of the USSR. In 1937-39 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. One of the organizers of mass arrests and dismissals in the People's Commissariat, while at the same time a great influence on affairs of the People's Commissariat preserved and LM. Kaganovich. When in 1938 I.V. Stalin began to be released from their proteges involved in the repression of 1937-38. Bakulin April 5. was removed from his post as commissar, and on July 23 arrested. Sentenced to death. Shot. In 1956, rehabilitated.