Semen Denisovich Ignatiev ( September 1 (14), 1904 , Karlovka village , Elizavetgrad district, Kherson province - November 27, 1983 , Moscow ) - Soviet party and statesman. Chairman of the International Criminal Police Committee of Interpol in the USSR (since 1953). 3rd Minister of State Security of the USSR (1951-1953).
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| Predecessor | Zinnat Ibyatovich Muratov | ||||||||
| Successor | Fikryat Akhmedzhanovich Tabeev | ||||||||
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| Predecessor | Sabir Ahmedyanovich Vagapov | ||||||||
| Successor | Zia Nurievich Nuriev | ||||||||
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| Predecessor | Victor Semenovich Abakumov ; Sergey Ivanovich Ogoltsov (acting) | ||||||||
| Successor | position abolished; Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria as Minister of the Interior of the USSR | ||||||||
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| Predecessor | Semyon Borisovich Zadionchenko | ||||||||
| Successor | Sabir Ahmedyanovich Vagapov | ||||||||
| Birth | September 14, 1904 Karlovka , Kherson province , Elizavetgrad district , Russian Empire (now Karlovka, Kropyvnytskyi district of the Kirovograd region of Ukraine) | ||||||||
| Death | November 27, 1983 (aged 79) Moscow , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||||
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| The consignment | VKP (b) since 1926 (candidate since 1924? [1] ) | ||||||||
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Member of the CPSU since 1926 [2] [3] [4] , member of the Central Committee (1939–1952), member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952–1953, 1953–1961), member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952–1953).
Biography
Born into a poor peasant family. By nationality Ukrainian [5] [6] [7] .
From 1914 to 1919 he worked at a ginnery in Termez (Central Asia), where his parents moved, then as a mechanic's assistant at the railway workshops of the Bukhara railway. Since the end of 1919, the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the main depot of the Bukhara railway [2] . Since 1919, in the Komsomol, a member of the Amu-Darya regional committee of the Komsomol. Since 1920, in the organs of the Cheka , at the Komsomol and trade union work. The last position before entering the Promacademy was from December 1929 to August 1931 the head of the mass sector of the Central Asian Bureau of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
He graduated from the Aviation Department of the All-Union Promakademii them. Stalin , where he studied from August 1931 to September 1935, is an engineer-technologist of aircraft engineering [3] .
After graduating from high school in October 1935, October 1937 was the assistant to the head of the Industrial Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, most of the time, A. A. Andreev .
From October 25, 1937 until March 7, 1943, he was the first secretary of the regional committee of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Ulan-Udinsky city committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and was elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the BMASR.
From 1943 to 13.04. 1946 - First Secretary of the Bashkir Regional Party Committee. Recalled "for use in responsible work in the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Bolsheviks)", nominee N. S. Patolichev [8] [9] .
From 1946 to 1947, First Deputy Head of the Office for Verification of Party Cadres of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Patolichev, member of the editorial board of the journal "Party Life" (1946-1947).
From 1947 to 1949 - Secretary, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus (b), member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus (b).
Since 1949 - Secretary of the Central Asian Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) , authorized by the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) for Uzbekistan.
From 12/30/1950 to 02/16/1952 head of the department of party, trade union and Komsomol bodies of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
The head of the department of party and Komsomol organs of the Central Committee, Ignatiev, by special resolution of July 11, 1951, was appointed representative of the Central Committee in the Ministry of State Security [10] . From 9.8.1951 to 15.3.1953, the Minister of State Security of the USSR (the “ Doctors' Case ” and the “ Mingrel Case ” were promoted under him), at the same time headed the department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and then personally the Security Ministry Directorate after the dismissal of the long-standing chief of Stalin’s security, General N. S. Vlasika . After the death of I. Stalin in March 1953, the ministry merged with the Ministry of Internal Affairs , headed by L.P. Beria , while Ignatiev became secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.
The day after the release of doctors (in the “doctors' case”), on April 5, 1953, a poll of members of the Central Committee of the CPSU made a decision in the light of “serious mistakes made by Comrade S. Ignatyev in the leadership of the former USSR Ministry of State Security” to relieve him of his duties Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. On April 28, 1953, S. D. Ignatiev was also removed from the composition of the CPSU Central Committee by questioning the members of the Central Committee. At the suggestion of Beria, supported by other members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, the Committee on Party Control under the Central Committee of the CPSU was instructed to consider the issue of party affiliation of S. D. Ignatiev [11] .
At the July 1953 Plenum of the Central Committee, the resolution of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU of April 28, 1953 was canceled, and S. D. Ignatiev was reinstated as a member of the Central Committee [11] ; December 19, 1953 he was appointed first secretary of the Bashkir regional committee [12] ; June 27, 1957 he was appointed first secretary of the Tatar Regional Committee , was released on December 3, 1960 - for health reasons [13] . Professor B. F. Sultanbekov, noting Ignatiev’s efforts to preserve the Tatar culture, school and language, believes that for this reason Ignatiev was accused of indulging "national limitedness", removed from work under the pretext of "seriously shaken health" and retired [ 14] .
Since 1960 - a personal pensioner of national importance, lived in Moscow.
Ignatiev was one of the organizers of the conspiracy against N. S. Khrushchev .
He died on November 27, 1983 . He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow [15] .
Rewards
- Four Orders of Lenin (02/29/1940, 03/23/1944, 12/30/1948, 11/11/1957)
- Order of the October Revolution (09/13/1974)
- Order of the Patriotic War 1 degree (2.07.1945)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (12/30/1943)
- USSR medals
Reviews
- According to P. A. Sudoplatov , “he perceived every intelligence message as the discovery of America. He could be convinced of anything: as soon as he read any document, he immediately fell under the influence of what he read, not trying to double-check the facts ” [3] .
- According to General Alidin , Ignatiev, “is soft in nature, completely obeying the requirements of the higher leadership, he was especially timid before Stalin and unquestioningly carried out any order. This was and was dangerous ” [10] .
Notes
- ↑ Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU
- ↑ 1 2 Mlechin L.M. KGB. Chairpersons of state security agencies. Declassified Fates. - S. 104. // Litmir.net
- ↑ 1 2 3 Zenkovich N. A. The most closed people. Encyclopedia of biographies. Part 2.
- ↑ 02846
- ↑ Mukhin Yu. I. The assassination of Stalin and Beria
- ↑ Killers of Stalin. 20th Century Main Secret - Yuri Mukhin - Google Books
- ↑ Yuri Mukhin. The assassination of Stalin and Beria
- ↑ Arnold Beichman, Mikhail S. Bernstam. Andropov. New Challenge to the West. / Robert Conquest . - New York: Stein and Day, 1983 .-- S. 92, 101 .-- 256 p. - ISBN 0-8128-2921-2 .
- ↑ Werner G. Hahn. Postwar Soviet Politics. The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53. - Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.- S. 46.- 245 p. - ISBN 0-8014-1410-5 .
- ↑ 1 2 Mlechin L.M. KGB. Chairpersons of state security agencies. Declassified Fates. - S. 105 // Litmir.net
- ↑ 1 2 Etinger I. Ya. It is impossible to forget: Memories. - M .: All World, 2001. - ISBN 5-7777-0126-4
- ↑ [1] (inaccessible link)
- ↑ [2] (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Civil war on the Volga
- ↑ Ignatiev Semyon Denisovich Archived on August 18, 2007.