Antselovich, Naum Markovich

Naum Markovich Antselovich was born in the family of a joiner. He studied at an electrical school.

In 1905 he joined the ranks of the RSDLP . Then he was engaged in agitation in St. Petersburg, Odessa and the Crimea , because of which he was repeatedly arrested.

In 1917 he became a member of the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Trade Unions and chairman of the Union of Electricians, and in October of the same year, he became a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee and commissar of the commissariat. In 1918 he was a member of the bureau of the Petrograd city committee and chairman of the city council of trade unions.

From September to December 1919 he worked as deputy chief of the political department of the Southern Front , and from 1920 - chairman of the Petrograd provincial trade union council.

In 1921 he was appointed to the post of secretary of the foreign delegation of Russian trade unions. From 1923 to 1931 he worked as chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Land and Forest Workers.

From 1927 to 1934 he was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks .

In 1931 he worked as a secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, and from October 1931 to February 1934 - deputy commissar of the USSR Workers 'and Peasants' Inspectorate; was simultaneously from February 1932 to January 1934 was a member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission .

From 1934 to 1935 he was authorized by the Commission of Soviet Control in the Gorky Territory , and from 1935 to 1938 - authorized by the Commission of Soviet Control in Leningrad and the region . From March to October 1938 - Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission.

From May 1937 to March 1939, he was a member of the bureau of the Commission of Soviet Control, and from 1937 to 1946 he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st convocation.

In 1939 he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) .

October 29, 1938 Naum Markovich Antselovich was appointed to the post of Commissar of the forest industry of the USSR . The People's Commissariat could not cope with the logging carried out by the Gulag , because of which on April 27, 1940 he was removed from his post, and in February 1941 at the XVIII Party Conference he was removed from the Central Committee of the CPSU (b).

From 1940 to 1941 he worked as the head of the mass cultural department and the deputy head of the labor protection department of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions .

Since August 1941, he worked as an authorized representative of the Military Council of the Moscow Military District and the Moscow Defense Committee at defense industry factories. Then he was transferred to the deputy chief of the political department of the corps and the 53rd Guards Rifle Division .

From 1945 to 1949 he worked as Deputy Commissar (Minister) of Trade of the RSFSR .

In 1949, he was transferred to the post of director of the pilot demonstration Moschensky timber plant in the Moscow region as director of the plant No. 42 of the Ministry of Forestry and Paper Industry of the USSR .

Since 1950 - a personal pensioner of national importance.

He died on September 15, 1952 in Moscow . He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery .

• Order of the Red Banner ;
• Order of the Patriotic War , 2nd degree;
• Order of the Red Star ;
• medals.

• Memory of the people: Guard Lieutenant Colonel N.M. Antselovich
• Antselovich Naum Markovich // A Handbook on the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union (1898-1991).