Deribas Terenty D.

Deribas Terenty D. (28.03.1883 village Uspenskoe Ekaterinoslav province - 28.07.1938). one of the leaders of the state security, the Commissioner of Public Security of rank 1 (26/11/1935). The son of a Cossack. Educated in Kremenchug Real School (1903). In 1903 joined the RSDLP, Bolshevik. Member of the Revolution of 1905-07. Repeatedly arrested. Since 1911 worked as an accountant, a clerk. In 1917, one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks in the Orenburg province, in 1918, Commissioner of Justice and before. Orenburg Commission of Inquiry. In 1917-18 Secretary of the Party committee, deputy chairman of the executive committee of Trinity-Chelyabinsk, Ural board secretary of state control. In November. 1918 joined the Red Army, nach.politotdela various divisions. Since April. Before 1920. Pavlograd district and county offices of the Revolutionary Committee of the RCP (b). He was famous for mass executions of officers and "class enemies" in Pavlograd and Troitsk (Siberia). In December. 1920 was appointed deputy. Commissioner Precinct 4-secret department of the Cheka. In 1921-22 beginning. offices of the Secret Department of the Cheka-GPU. Active member of suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion (1921), peasant uprisings in Tambovshine etc.. On 25.5.1923 beginning. Secret (Department of the GPU - OGPU USSR, and since 30.7.1927 1 st assistant. early. Secret-operative management of the OGPU. In 1931-37 member of the Board of the NKVD. Was attracted. 1929 D. transferred to the Far East OGPU plenipotentiary (from 10.7.1934 - beginning. Office of the NKVD) and the beginning. Separate Special Section of the Far Eastern Army. In October. 1933 he was entrusted with the construction by inmates of the Baikal-Amur Railway, where, in his own words, "the first thing that catches your eye - it is absolutely inhumane working conditions". Managed mass repressions in 1930-ies. In t.ch. and in the Far Eastern Army. Responsible for the almost complete destruction of the Party, economic and military personnel in the region. Since 1934 a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). During the purges Jagodina-Yezhov leadership of the NKVD 31.7.1937 was dismissed from his post and arrested on 12.8.1937 and 28.7.1938 sentenced to death. Shot. In 1957, rehabilitated.