CATS Basil Afanasievich

Vasily Kotov Afanasievich (1895. Moscow - 26.5.1937), the party leader. The son of an employee of the post office. Received his education in Zemstvo Elementary School. He worked in the forge and metalwork shops in Moscow. In 1915 he joined the RSDLP, Bolshevik. Repeatedly arrested. In 1917 he worked in Moscow. In 1919-25 the Sokolniki district committee secretary of the RCP (b) (Moscow). In 1925-28 Secretary of the Moscow Committee of the CPSU (b). In 1925-30 member of the CC, CPSU (b). 16.12.1927 -26.6.1930 candidate member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee. In 1929-33 member of the Board of the USSR People's Commissariat of Labor, in 1933-35 Head. social insurance offices AUCCTU. Since 1935 Managing construction trusts "Gosotdelstroy" People's Commissariat of Communal Services of the RSFSR. In 1936 arrested. 25/5/1937 sentenced to death. Shot. In 1958, rehabilitated in 1962, reinstated in the party.