Nekrasov, Nikolai Vissarionovich

Nikolai Nekrasov was born on October 20 ( November 1 ), 1879 in the city of St. Petersburg in the family of the priest Nekrasov Vissarion Yakovlevich.

He graduated with a gold medal from the gymnasium in St. Petersburg (1897), the St. Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineers (1902; with honors). In 1903-1905 he was on an internship in Germany , got acquainted with the system of teaching construction in higher educational institutions, examined the largest construction enterprises, objects and structures, and simultaneously worked on his dissertation.

Since August 1, 1902 - a full-time teacher of mathematics, mechanics and drawing engineering department of Tomsk Technological Institute . Since July 1, 1906, he has been an acting professor in the Department of Structural Mechanics (specialty "Bridges"). He lectured on “Statics of Structures”, “Bridges”, led design in construction art (bridge foundations), structural mechanics, and statics of structures. In 1906-1908 he was the secretary of the engineering department. Prepared two abstract courses: “Statics of Structures”, “Static Undetectable Systems”. He presented the dissertation “On the theory of farms with rigid joints in nodes. The experience of comparative analysis of calculation methods ”(1907). He was characterized by his colleagues as a “serious and clever teacher.”

Since 1905 he actively participated in the political life of Russia, took part in organizing a group of the academic union (union of professors) in Tomsk . He did not live long in Yalta , where he joined the Constitutional Democratic Party (People’s Freedom Party), headed its Yalta branch, represented the Tauride province at the 1st constituent congress of the cadet party.

In 1909-1915 - member of the Central Committee (CC) of the Cadet Party, leader of its left wing, advocate of active cooperation with the socialist parties, resigned from the Central Committee, since a more moderate majority did not agree with his ideas.

Since 1907 - a member of the III State Duma from the Tomsk province , was a member of the cadet fraction. He was considered one of the most active deputies, he spoke from the Duma rostrum more than 100 times. He mainly dealt with problems of construction, communications and finance. Nekrasov was a rapporteur of the financial commission for rail and water issues. He spoke with the justification for the construction of railway lines Tyumen - Omsk , Yekaterinburg - Kurgan . The initiator of the development of the Siberian railway construction plan with the participation of local public forces. He was a member of the Siberian parliamentary group, taking an active part in the development of bills relating to Siberia .

One of the prominent figures of Russian political Freemasonry, a member of the Great East of the peoples of Russia, until the 1912 convention, and then in 1915 and the first half of 1916 - Secretary General of the Supreme Council of the VVNR. In this capacity, he closely collaborated with A.F. Kerensky , and along with him he entered the informal “Masonic Five” of political figures. Its members were also A.I. Konovalov , M.I. Tereshchenko , I.N. Efremov , who later became ministers of the Provisional Government.

Since 1912 - a member of the IV State Duma from the Tomsk province, in 1916-1917 - a friend of its chairman. After the outbreak of World War I, he led the 1st Siberian Sanitary Nutrition Unit. He was a member of the Special Meeting on State Defense. Together with A.I. Guchkov, he participated in the preparation of a conspiracy to remove Nicholas II , and was a supporter of decisive action.

During the February Revolution of 1917 - a member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma . On the night of March 3, he drafted a bill declaring Russia a republic, which caused sharp discontent of the Cadet leader P.N. Milyukov , who considered Nekrasov an ambitious careerist and even a traitor (Milyukov himself considered constitutional monarchy possible for Russia).

March 2 - July 2, 1917 - Minister of Railways of the Provisional Government. In an effort to gain popularity among left-wing forces, he published a circular on the right of the railway workers' union to public control and observation of the activities of the railway department. Satisfied the requirements of workers and employees to increase wages.

He considered it necessary to create a government coalition with the socialists, was a supporter of the removal of P.N. Milyukov from the government, and a political ally of A.F. Kerensky. At the end of June, he turned out to be the only cadet minister (although he already formally belonged to the party), who supported the concessions to the Ukrainian Central Rada . This position of Kerensky, Nekrasov and the center-left majority of the members of the government led to the resignation of the Cadet Ministers and the formation of a new government, which was headed by Kerensky. Nekrasov, who left the cadet party, on July 8 took the post of deputy minister-chairman, and on July 24, at the same time, minister of finance. In July 1917, he became one of the leaders of the small Russian radical democratic party , represented in the second coalition of the Provisional Government by two ministers: Nekrasov himself and I.N. Efremov.

He was involved in the betrayal of General L. G. Kornilov during the August events ^[1] , but he was a supporter of the resignation of Kerensky in order to prevent an armed conflict. In this case, Nekrasov, as deputy minister-chairman, became the acting head of government. However, Kerensky then held on to the post of prime minister, and Nekrasov was removed from the government and removed from Petrograd in connection with the appointment of the Governor-General of Finland (from September 5, 1917).

After the Bolsheviks came to power, he was the manager of the Moscow office of Sincredsoyuz, a statistician in the People's Commissariat of Food . At the beginning of 1918, having changed his name to V. A. Golgofsky, he left for Ufa and worked in the cooperation system. In 1919 he moved to Kazan . In March 1921 he was identified as the former Minister of the Provisional Government, was arrested, sent to Moscow and in May, after meeting with V.I. Lenin in the Kremlin , was released. In 1921-1930 he was a member of the board of the Central Union of the RSFSR and the USSR, taught at Moscow University , at the Institute of Consumer Cooperation.

He was arrested on November 30, 1930, and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in the case of the so-called. "Counter-revolutionary organization" of the Union Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (m). While in custody, he worked in the Special Design Bureau for the Design of the White Sea-Baltic Canal , participated in the construction of the canal. He spoke at a gala rally shortly before the end of the channel ^[2] . In March 1933, with the completion of the construction of the canal, he was prematurely released, after which he worked on the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal as an employee of the construction management and head of the Zavidovsky construction area. In 1937 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for the early launch of the canal ^[3] . In 1939, he held the post of chief of work in the Kalyazinsky district of the Volga ITL NKVD ( Volgostroi ), was engaged in the construction of hydroelectric facilities.

June 13, 1939 was arrested. On April 14, 1940, he was convicted by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charges of sabotage on the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal and the organization of a counter-revolutionary terrorist group with the aim of killing the leaders of the CPSU (b) and the Soviet government.

Shot on May 7, 1940. He was buried in Moscow at the Don cemetery . Rehabilitated March 12, 1991 by the USSR Prosecutor's Office .

• Father - Vissarion Yakovlevich, graduated from the St. Petersburg Theological Academy with a degree of candidate of theology, was a priest, law teacher at the Gatchina Teachers' Seminary and other secondary schools in St. Petersburg, since 1896 - archpriest.
• Mother - Alexandra Fedorovna.
• First wife - Anna Timofeevna (nee Kirichenko).
• 2nd wife - Vera Leontyevna (nee Alexandrova) (1884-1969), a botanist, an employee of the Botanical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, divorced Nekrasov in 1917, lived under the name Nekrasov.
• 3rd wife - Zernova, daughter of a professor at the Institute of Technology Dmitry Stepanovich Zernov , son of this marriage.

• Nekrasov N.V. On the issue of calculating the bridges of the Resal system // Bulletin of the Tomsk Technological Institute [Bulletin of the TTI]. - 1903. - T. 2 . - S. 1-26 .
• Nekrasov N.V. On the theory of farms with rigid joints in nodes. 1. Experience in a comparative analysis of calculation methods // Bulletin of the Tomsk Technological Institute [Bulletin of the TTI]. - 1907. - T. 7 , No. 4 . - S. 1-182 .
• Nekrasov N.V. Statics of structures. : Statically insurmountable systems: (Synopsis). - Tomsk: Typographic lithography of the Siberian Printing Institute, 1907. - 100 p.

• Nekrasov, Nikolai Vissarionovich // Tomsk from A to Z: A Brief Encyclopedia of the City. / Ed. Dr. East. Sciences N. M. Dmitrienko . - 1st ed. - Tomsk: NTL Publishing House, 2004 .-- S. 233. - 440 p. - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89503-211-7 .
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