Eiche Robert Indrikovich

Eiche Robert Indrikovich (31.7.1890, mansion Avotyn Doblenskogo County Kurland province - 2.2.1940), party and state leaders. The son of a laborer. Educated in a 2-classroom primary school (1904). He worked as a shepherd, from 1906 as an apprentice in a blacksmith's bench -. In 1905 joined the Social Democracy of the Latvian territory (SDLC). Conducted party work in Mitau and Riga. Member of the revolution of 1905-07 in Mitau. In 1908 he emigrated to Britain, where he worked as a miner, fireman, etc.. In 1911 he returned to Riga and entered the plant "Felser". Since 1914 member of the Central Committee of the SDLC. In 1915 he was arrested and exiled to the Yenisei province, fled. In 1917, a member of the Presidium of the Riga Council, then to the underground work. In January. 1,918 arrested, but already in July, fled to Moscow. In 1918, authorized the People's Commissariat of food (NKProd) of the RSFSR in the province of Tula, the organizer of food detachments. In 1919 the People's Commissar of food in Latvia. Since 1919, Deputy. Chelyabinsk Province prodkomissara, Deputy. prev. Chelyabinsk executive committee, before. Provincial Committee of the RCP (b). Organizer robbery villages, confiscation of food, as well as punitive expedition to deal with the surplus peasants protesting. Then transferred to deputy. Commissar Food Kyrgyzstan. In 1921 transferred to the apparatus of the RCP (b). In 1921 authorized NKProd in Rostov-na-Donu. In 1922-23 food commissioner Siberia. In 1923-24 Deputy. RSFSR People's Commissar of Food. In 1924 Deputy. prev. Siberian Revolutionary Committee. In 1925-29 before. Siberian executive committee. In 1925, a candidate for membership in July 1930 a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Since 1929 1-st secretary of the Siberian, from 1930 - the West Siberian Regional Committee of the CPSU (b). On 1.2.1935 a candidate member of Politburo. Led the effort to purge the party and economic apparatus in 1936-37, which caused an unprecedented wave of arrests in Siberia. 1/2/1937 at a meeting of Party activists, said: "We must uncover, expose the enemy, in whatever hole he may bury". Speaking at the West Siberian Party Conference 7/6/1937, said: "After checking and exchange (Party cards) was exposed and expelled from the party even greater number of sworn enemies ... The enemies have been exposed is not all must do our utmost to strengthen work to expose the Trotsky-Bukharin-ing bandits. 29/10/1937 appointed People's Commissar for Agriculture. In 1937 was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. 29/4/1938 arrested. 2/2/1940 sentenced to death. Shot. In 1956, rehabilitated and restored in the party.