Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky

Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky (20.10.1895, Yekaterinoslav - 10.2.1938), party and state leaders. The son of a merchant. Educated in the Minsk Gymnasium, he studied at the medical faculty of Moscow University (not finished). In 1913 joined the RSDLP, Bolshevik. In March 1917 the Joint Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Tula RSDLP, and then Tula Committee RSDLP (b). In June 1927 arrested. Since October. Before 1917. Tula Military Revolutionary Committee. Elected member of the Constituent Assembly. In 1918-20 before. Tula regional committee of the RCP (B.) and executive committee. At the same time in 1919 a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Tula fortified area and 2 reserve army. In 1920 Secretary of the CC CP (b) of Azerbaijan, and before. Baku Council. In 1922-23 before. Central Committee of the All-Russia union of workers of land and forests. In 1923 - 29 Deputy. prev. All-Russia Union of agricultural cooperatives. Since December. 1925 a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). In 1928-29 before. All-Russia Union agricultural collectives (Kolhoztsentr). Since 1929 Head. Department of agitation, propaganda and the press, and then the department of agitation and mass campaigns of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Since 1930 Secretary of the Moscow Committee of the CPSU (b), in 1932-34 before. Mosoblispolkoma. Sfevr. 1934 to 15.3.1937 Commissar of Health of the RSFSR. 20/7/1936 appointed People's Commissar of Health. 17/2/1937 signed a falsified medical certificate stating that Mr.. K. Ordzhonikidze died of heart failure. At the June Central Committee Plenum (1937) appealed to I.V. Stalin, saying that "the NKVD continues to arrest honest people" to which Stalin replied: "They are enemies of the people, and you are a bird of the same flight. 25/6/1937 arrested. 8/2/1938 sentenced to death. Shot. In 1955, rehabilitated.