Solomon Arkadevich Bak (1902 - January 21, 1940) - employee of the OGPU-NKVD of the USSR , major of state security (1937). People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . He was part of the special triples of the NKVD of the USSR .
| Solomon Arkadevich Bak | ||
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| Birth | 1902 Verkholeny village , Irkutsk province , Russia | |
| Death | January 21, 1940 Moscow , USSR | |
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| The consignment | RKSM since 1917 , RCP (b) since January 1918 . | |
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| Military service | ||
| Years of service | 1917 - 1938 | |
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |
| Type of army | OGPU - NKVD | |
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The early years
Jew. Born in the village of Verkholeny (according to other sources in the village of Znamenka [1] ) on the Lena goldfields in the Irkutsk province in the family of a political exile who worked as an accountant. In 1911 he entered the Irkutsk gymnasium, in which he graduated from 5 classes. In 1917-1918 he was a member of the RKSM (member of the Irkutsk Committee of the Union of Socialist Youth).
From November 1917 to June 1918, an ordinary detachment that participated in the fight against Kolchak . In the Irkutsk partisan detachment from December 1919 to January 1920. Secretary of the commission for the liquidation of property of the Kolchak regime of the Irkutsk Provincial Revolutionary Committee from January to February 1920; Secretary of the Irkutsk Provincial Revolutionary Committee from February to April 1920; Secretary of the Tomsk Provincial Revolutionary Committee from April to July 1920; Chairman of the Tomsk Provincial Requisition Committee, Head of the Tomsk Provincial Evacuation Committee from July 1920 to May 1921; Head of the Department of the Tomsk Executive Committee from May to June 1921; Head of the Mariinsky PEC Department from June to December 1921; Head of the organizational unit of the Tomsk executive committee from December 1921 to July 1922; Deputy Head of the Management Department of the Tomsk Provincial Executive Committee from July 1922 to July 1923; Deputy Head of the Department of the Yenisei Provincial Executive Committee from July 1923 to March 1924.
Red Army
Private, political instructor of the company of the 40th Infantry Regiment from March 1924 to March 1925. Then the political instructor of the battery of the 14th Artillery Regiment from March 1925 to December 1925. From December 1925 to 1926 he was an instructor in the political department of the 14th Infantry Division , then an assistant to the military commissar of this regiment divisions until September 1926.
OGPU-NKVD
Assistant to the Head of the 1st Division of the Eastern Department of the OGPU of the USSR from November 1, 1926 to June 20, 1927, then the Head of this Department until December 3, 1928. The Head of the Semipalatinsk District Branch of the GPU from December 1928 to August 1930. The Head of the Semipalatinsk Operational Sector of the GPU from October 21, 1930 to February 14, 1932. Head of the Karaganda Regional Department of the GPU from February 14, 1932 to July 10, 1934. Head of the Office of the NKVD of Karaganda Region July 15, 1934 to March 25, 1936. Head of the SPO UGB UKVD of the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from March 25, 1936 to December 16, 1936. Deputy Head of the UNKVD Yaroslavl region from December 16, 1936 to April 1, 1937, then the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic until October 1, 1937. From October 25, 1937 the Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic until March 20, 1938. During this period he was a member of special triples created by order of the NKVD of the USSR dated 30.07.1937 No. 00447 [2] ; an active participant in the Stalinist repressions [3] .
Further, the head of the 3rd department of the Volzhsky ITL NKVD from April 15, 1938 until his arrest on October 16, 1938.
Career Decline and Execution
Arrested on October 16, 1938. Sentenced by the HCVF of the USSR on January 19, 1940 as a member of a "terrorist organization" to the Navy . After 2 days, January 21, 1940 - shot. Posthumously not rehabilitated.
Family
His brother and sister also worked in state security agencies: 3rd-ranking State Security Commissioner Boris Arkadievich Bak (1897–1938), was arrested in 1937 and shot dead in 1938 — rehabilitated posthumously, unlike his brother; and lieutenant of state security Maria Arkadyevna Bak (worked as an officer in the 3rd division of the 4th (secret political) department of the GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR, in 1937 she was dismissed from the NKVD and apparently also repressed.
Awarding Special Ranks
- December 25, 1935 - Senior Lieutenant of State Security ;
- December 20, 1936 - captain of state security ;
- April 1, 1937 - major of state security .
Rewards
- Badge "Honorary Worker of the Cheka - GPU (XV)" (May 26, 1933);
- The sign " 15 years of Kazakhstan " (1936).
Notes
- ↑ Archive of Alexander N. Yakovlev - Almanac “Russia. XX century "- Biographical dictionary
- ↑ Compositions of triples in 1937−1938 // Website Nkvd.memo.ru
- ↑ Stalin's plan to exterminate the people: Preparation and implementation of the NKVD order No. 00447 “On the operation to repress former fists, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements” // Archive of Alexander N. Yakovlev
Links
Literature
- Bak S.A. // Petrov N.V., Skorkin K.V. Who led the NKVD, 1934-1941: reference book / Ed. N. G. Okhotin and A. B. Roginsky. - M .: Links, 1999 .-- 502 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-7870-0032-3 .
- V. Abramov Jews in the KGB. Executioners and victims. M., Yauza - Eksmo, 2005.