Filov, Victor Grigorievich

In pre-revolutionary times, he studied at the law faculty of Rostov University .

Party aliases: Tushin, Razin.

In April 1917 he joined the RCP (B.) , In June he was elected a member of the Rostov-Nakhichevan Party Committee. After the city passed under the control of the white army, he moved to Kharkov , worked in the editorial office of the newspapers "Donetsk Proletarian" and "Izvestia Yuga".

In February 1918, he took an active part in the creation of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic , taking the post of People's Commissar for Judicial Affairs in the first composition of its government. March 29, together with two other people's commissars, M. Zhakov and S. Vasilchenko, resigned in protest against the unification of the DKR with the Ukrainian Soviet Republic . An ardent supporter of the independence of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic, on April 2, 1918, published an article in “Izvestia Yuga”, “Who should I judge?” With harsh criticism of the head of the Council of People's Commissars, Artem , who agreed to the union, but was expelled from the RCP (b) on the same day and later restored.

After the Civil War, Filov was at journalistic work. In 1927, he worked as the editor of the newspaper Uralsky Rabochiy in Sverdlovsk , then returned to Rostov as the editor of Labor Don (later the Molot newspaper ), whose newcomer was the future writer Vera Panova , who described Filova in her autobiographical Sentimental Novel under the name “ Drobyshev. " In the early 1930s, Filov was the head of the organizational department and a member of the bureau of the North Caucasian Regional Committee of the party, in 1934 he was elected a delegate to the 17th Congress of the CPSU (B.) From the Azov-Black Sea Organization, then he served as head of the political department of the South-Eastern Railway .

In March 1937 he was removed from his post and transferred to a small position as deputy head of the office of Transtorgpit station of Medvedevo Kalininskaya railway. On July 19, he was expelled from the party and on August 14, 1937 he was arrested by the Bologovsky RO of the NKVD in the Kalinin Region. For "Trotskyism" and "sabotage and sabotage activity" he was sentenced by the away session of the USSR Supreme Council of the Air Force in Voronezh on 10/23/1938 to death and executed on the same day. Rehabilitated on July 7, 1956 by a decision of the All- Union Supreme Council of the USSR

Brother Vladimir Grigoryevich Filov (1899-1984) was a poet and was part of a group of nicknames ; later he lived in Barnaul, published a detailed historical essay "Pugachevtsy in Altai" (1955).

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• V.V. Kornilov . Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic. Shot a Dream.-Kharkov: Folio, 2011.