PRAMNEK Edward Karlovich

Pramnek Edward Karlovich (31.12.1899, Yaunraunskaya parish Lifland province - 29.7.1938), the party leader. The son of a laborer. Educated at the Communist University of the peoples of the West and Communist University YA.M. Sverdlov (1924). From 1913 he worked kamenshikom. In May 1917 entered into RSDLP (b). In 1919-21 he served in the Red Army. political commissar of the Latvian Rifle Regiment. Participated in conducting counter-insurgency operations in the West and South fronts. He took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921. From 1924 to the Party work in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1929, 2 nd Provincial Committee and secretary of the Vyatka okruzhkoma Party. On Nov.. 1929 2 nd, from 23.2.1934 1 st secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee (Regional Committee) of the CPSU (b). Since 1934 a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). 24/5/1937 appointed 1 st Secretary of the Donetsk regional committee and member of the Politburo of the CC CP (b) of Ukraine. Since 1937 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1938, arrested. Sentenced to death. Shot. In 1956, rehabilitated and restored in the party.