Nicholas DEMCHENKO Nesterovich

Nikolay Demchenko Nesterovich (1896, Swan Kharkov province - 30.10.1937, Moscow), party and state leaders. Son tradesman. He studied at the Medical Faculty of Kharkov University (not finished). In 1916 he joined the RSDLP, Bolshevik. In 1917, before. Executive Committee Board Lebedinsky. In 1917-18 he worked as an accountant at a sugar factory. In 1918, before. Lebedinsk county revolutionary committee. In 1918-19 Head. Voronezh province by land department, and before. Revcom. Since 1919, Head. provincial land department, in 1920-21 before. Samara Provincial Committee of the RCP (b). In 1921-23 beginning. management of state farms of the RSFSR People's Commissariat of Agriculture. Since 1923, Secretary of Zhytomyr regional committee (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. In 1925-27 Deputy. Commissar of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1927-28 Head. orgraspredotdelom CC CP (b) of Ukraine. In 1928, Secretary of the Kiev okruzhkoma Party. In 1930-32 the USSR People's Commissar of Agriculture. Active member of collectivization, is one of the main perpetrators of grand famine in the Ukraine. Since July 1932 1 st secretary of Kiev, Kharkov in June 1934 with the regional committees (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. Member of the Politburo of the CC CP (b) U. On Feb.. 1934 a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Since Sept.. 1936 1 st Vice. People's Commissariat for Agriculture. On 11.4.1937 Commissar of grain and livestock farms of the USSR. 22/7/1937 arrested. 29/10/1937 sentenced to death for participating in the anti-Soviet conspiratorial center. Shot. In 1954, rehabilitated. According to the memoirs NS. Khrushchev, "was killed by the hands of Stalin, although he was very devoted to the general line of the Party Central Committee and personally to Stalin."