Gilinsky Abram Lazarevic

Gilinsky Abram Lazarevic (07.01.1897, Dvinsk Vitebsk - 26.02.1939), politician. The son of second-hand bookshop. Educated in the Dvina Elementary School (1910) and courses in Marxism, the CEC of the USSR (1929). In 191 1 worked as an electrician. In 1915 he joined the RSDLP, Bolshevik. Conducted party work in Dvinsk Kharkov. In December. 1,915 arrested and exiled to Irkutsk province. Released on February Revolution. Since April. 1917 agitator in the Narva District Committee RSDLP (b) (Petrograd), then - in Kremenchug. In 1917-18 the organizer and the beginning. Staff of the Red Guards in Kremenchug. In 1918 - 20 on underground work in the Ukraine: prev. Zhytomyr (1918-19) and Kiev (1919-20) provincial committees of the Party. Participated in the organization of guerrilla units. In April-Sept. 1920 Secretary Ekaterinoslav Provincial Committee Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. In 1920-21 again worked as an electrician. Since 1921 Deputy. Head. the organizational department of the CC CP (b) of Ukraine, in 1923-25 Secretary of Gomel, in 1926 - 28 Ryazan provincial committees of the Party. In 1929-30 Deputy. Head. orgraspredotdelom CC, CPSU (b). In 1931-34 member of the Collegium of the USSR People's Commissariat of Supply, both headed sector staff (1931-32) and the Department of Alcohol and spirtovodochnoy Industry. In 1934 his office sent to the USSR People's Commissariat of Food. G. was the organizer and creator of the alcohol industry in the USSR, from which the Government has to make huge profits, but at the same time in the country has developed a wholesale drunkenness. Since 1937 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Since July 1937 Deputy. Commissar, Commissar 19.1.1938 with the food industry of the USSR. Arrested on 24.6.1938, 7.8.1938 and officially withdrawn from the post of Commissar. Sentenced to death. Shot. In 1955, rehabilitated.