Pyotr Sergeevich Popkov ( January 23, 1903 , the village of Koliseevo, Vladimir province , Russian Empire - October 1, 1950 , Leningrad , USSR ) - Soviet party leader. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1925 .
| Peter Sergeevich Popkov | |||||||
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 P. S. Popkov with the Order of Lenin | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Alexey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov | ||||||
| Successor | Vasily Mikhailovich Andrianov | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin | ||||||
| Successor | Peter Georgievich Lazutin | ||||||
| Birth | January 23, 1903 Koliseevo village, Vladimir province , Russia | ||||||
| Death | October 1, 1950 (aged 47) Leningrad , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||
| Burial place | Levashovo Memorial Cemetery | ||||||
| The consignment | VKP (b) | ||||||
| Education | Leningrad Institute of Public Utilities Engineers | ||||||
| Profession | carpenter , utility engineer | ||||||
| Activities | party and statesman | ||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 Memory
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Biography
Born in a working class family.
In 1917 - 1925 - a carpenter at the factory "Red Builder".
Since 1925 - Secretary of the Vladimir Volost Committee of the Komsomol .
In 1926 - 1928 - head of the carpentry workshop of the Vladimir City Committee.
In 1937 - graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Public Utilities Engineers.
In 1937, he was the head of the research sector and the secretary of the party committee of the Leningrad Institute of Public Utilities Engineers.
In 1937 - 1938 - Chairman of the Lenin District Council in Leningrad .
From 1938, he was deputy chairman, and from 1939 to 1946, he was chairman of the Leningrad City Council.
Since 1941 - Member of the Commission on Defense of Leningrad. Since April 1942 - Member of the Military Council of the Leningrad Air Defense Army .
One of the organizers and leaders of the defense of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 . During this period, all spheres of the city’s life were reorganized in connection with the outbreak of World War II and the blockade. Urban industry transferred to defense needs. Hospitals for patients with dystrophy are created . Sanitary cleaning of the city was organized. A cable was laid along the bottom of Lake Ladoga to supply electricity from the Volkhov hydroelectric station.
On January 13, 1944, together with Aleksey Bubnov, he signed the decision of the Leningrad City Executive Committee to return 20 historical squares and streets of Leningrad to their historical pre-revolutionary names (including Palace Square, Nevsky Prospekt and Sadovaya Street).
In 1946, work began on the restoration and reconstruction of the city. Canceled card distribution system products. The Leningrad Coke and Gas Plant was resumed and the city’s heat supply was organized. Large gas stations were commissioned.
In 1946-1949 he was the 1st Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee and the City Committee of the CPSU (B.).
Since 1946 - deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 2nd convocation, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1946-1949).
At the XVIII Congress of the Party he was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) .
February 15, 1949 removed from office with the announcement of a severe reprimand.
In March 1949 he was sent to graduate school of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
August 13, 1949 was arrested in the office of G. M. Malenkov ; was one of the main defendants in the "Leningrad affair" - post-war purges in the party apparatus.
October 1, 1950 was shot.
On April 30, 1954, the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentence as falsified was canceled, and P. S. Popkov completely rehabilitated (posthumous). [1] In a party relation, by the decision of the CPC under the Central Committee of the CPSU, he was rehabilitated on September 18, 1987 . [2] [3]
Rewards
- 2 orders of Lenin ,
- Order of the Patriotic War , 1st degree
- Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" ( July 3, 1943 ) [4]
- other medals.
Memory
In St. Petersburg, at the house number 29/37 on Kronverkskaya street, a granite memorial plaque was installed with the inscription:
Petr Sergeevich Popkov, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council of Workers' Deputies during the Great Patriotic War, lived in this house from 1939 to 1950
The board was installed in 1983 . Architect V.V. Isaev. [5]
Notes
- ↑ Transcript of a speech by R. A. Rudenko at a meeting of an asset of the Leningrad party organization on a resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the Leningrad Affair
- ↑ Protocol No. 3 of a meeting of the Commission of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee on an additional study of materials related to repressions that took place during the period of the 30-40s and the beginning of the 50s. March 5, 1988
- ↑ Proceedings of the CPSU Central Committee No. 2 (289) February 1989, Moscow , Publishing House of the CPSU Central Committee Pravda, S. 136 ISSN 0235-7097
- ↑ Grigoriev V. S. "For the Defense of Leningrad" History of the medal. SPb. , 1993, S. 65-66
- ↑ Popkov P.S., memorial plaque
Literature
- “On the so-called“ Leningrad affair ”” // Proceedings of the CPSU Central Committee No. 2 (289) February 1989, Moscow , Publishing House of the CPSU Central Committee Pravda, pp. 126-137 ISSN 0235-7097
- Popkov Peter Sergeevich // St. Petersburg. Petrograd. Leningrad: Encyclopedic Handbook, M .: scientific publishing house Big Russian Encyclopedia . 1992, S. 504-505 ISBN 5-85270-037-1
- Amosova A.A. Devoted to oblivion: political biography of Peter Popkov. 1937-1950. - St. Petersburg: Aletheya, 2014 .-- 262 p.
Links
- The official portal of the Administration of St. Petersburg
- Biography on peoples.ru
- Biography from the book: Central Committee of the CPSU, CPSU (b), RCP (b), RSDLP (b): Historical and Biographical Reference / Comp. Goryachev Yu. V. -M.: Parad Publishing House, 2005. on the site "Digital Library -" People and Books ""
- Biography from L. Sidorovsky. People of the “Leningrad affair” // “Leningrad affair”: (Sat.). L., 1990.S. 304-362. on site Encyclopedia "St. Petersburg"
- Popkov Petr Sergeevich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .