Aleksandr Viktorovich Belyshev ( 1893 - 1974 ) - Baltic sailor , the first commissar of the cruiser Aurora in October 1917, who directly issued an order for a single salvo, which served as a signal for the beginning of the October Revolution (the command was carried out directly by the cruiser’s commander Evdokim Ognev ).
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| Date of Birth | July 25 ( August 6 ) 1893 |
| Place of Birth | village Kletnevo, Vyaznikovsky district , Vladimir province , Russia |
| Date of death | August 29, 1974 ( 81) |
| Place of death | Leningrad , RSFSR , USSR |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire of the  the USSR |
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Biography
Born on July 25 ( August 6 ), 1893 in the village of Kletnevo, Vyaznikovsky district, Vladimir province (now Shuisky district, Ivanovo region ) in a shoemaker's family. The village of Kletnevo no longer exists, but it was located not far from the administrative center - the village of Vasilyevsky, where the village museum of local lore now operates, in which A.V. Belyshev visited when he came home. The museum stores information about a fellow countryman.
In 1909-1913 he studied at the Maltsev Technical School in Vladimir (in honor of this, a memorial plaque was installed on the building). He worked as a mechanic at a textile factory in Nerekht .
He began his service as a sailor in the Baltic Fleet in 1913 , in the summer of 1914 he was transferred by the engineer to Aurora . In March 1917 he joined the RSDLP (b) , was elected representative of the cruiser in the Central Baltic . October 24 (November 6) 1917 The Military Revolutionary Committee appointed Belyshev commissar of the Aurora. In the days of the Great October Socialist Revolution, on the instructions of the All-Russian Revolutionary Committee, it ensured the passage of the cruiser to the Nikolaevsky bridge to support the rebels.
After demobilization from the fleet in 1918, he lived in Petrograd for some time. At the end of 1918 he returned to his homeland. He worked as a mechanic at the 2nd State Auto Repair Plant in Rodniki . He was elected chairman of the Ivanovo-Voznesensky provincial department of the transport workers union. From January to December 1922 he was the manager of the provincial transport department. In September 1923 he moved to Petrograd. He worked at the Krasnaya Zarya telephone factory, where he was elected a member of the bureau of a party organization and chairman of the factory committee of the union. In 1929-1931 he was deputy director of the central laboratory for wired communications. In 1935 he graduated from the Leningrad Industrial Academy and worked as a chief mechanic at the Lenenergo plant.
Personal pensioner.
He died on August 29, 1974 in Leningrad . He was buried at the Bolsheokhtinsky cemetery .
Memory
- The street in St. Petersburg is named after Alexander Viktorovich.
- In the naval museum of the cruiser "Aurora" a bronze bust of A. V. Belyshev is installed [1] .
Addresses in Leningrad
1959-1974 - 33 Bolshaya Porokhovskaya Street .
Notes
- ↑ Bartev G.P. et al., 1983 , p. 48.
Literature
- Bartev G.P. et al. Cruiser Aurora. Guide to the ship museum. - 2nd ed., Revised. and add. - L .: Lenizdat , 1983 .-- 96 p. - (To a tourist about Leningrad). - 150,000 copies.