CURRANT Petr Ivanovich

Smorodin Peter Ivanovich (1897, Borinskaja county Voronezh - 25.2.1939), the party leader. The son of a peasant. Education received a course of Marxism of the Communist Academy (1928). In 191 1 he worked at the factory of surgical instruments (St. Petersburg). In May 1917 entered into RSDLP (b). One of the founders and the first before. Petrograd Union of Socialist Working Youth (SSRM). In Feb.. 1918 POM. commander of the guerrilla unit SSRM. Member of the Civil War, the regiment commissar. Since 1920 member of the CC RKSM, secretary of the Petrograd Komsomol. In 1921-24 1 st secretary of RKSM. In 1928-37 Head. organizational department, the secretary of the various district committees in Leningrad, in 1937, 2 nd Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU (b). In 1930 a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Since 1937 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in August 1937 1 st secretary of the Stalingrad Provincial Committee of the CPSU (b), was a member of the troika, made in the field of death sentences. One of the organizers of repression in the. In June 1938 removed from his post and arrested. Sentenced to death. Shot. In 1956, rehabilitated and restored to the parties.