Serebrovsky, Alexander Pavlovich

He was born in the family of a hereditary honorary citizen, a former exile in the “ 193 case ” ^[1] .

He graduated from high school in Ufa. In 1902 he entered the Petersburg Technological Institute , due to participation in student unrest, he was sent back to Ufa. Member of the RSDLP since 1903. Repeatedly arrested.

Member of the Revolution of 1905-1907 . In 1905, a member of the Executive Committee of the St. Petersburg Council from the Putilov Plant . In 1907, he participated in the preparation of an armed uprising in Vladivostok, but was arrested before it began. In late 1908 or early 1909 he emigrated to Belgium, where he graduated from the Higher Technical School (1911). In 1911 he returned to Russia.

Member of the October Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, on state and economic work: member of the board of the People’s Commissariat of Commerce (1917-1918), deputy chairman of the Extraordinary Commission for the Supply of the Red Army, head of the military supply of the Ukrainian Front (1919), chairman of the Central Board of the artillery factories (1919-1920), deputy commissar of railways Messages (1920).

Since 1920 - Chairman of the Board of Azneft in Baku. In 1926, Mr .. - Chairman of the Board of the USSR Oil and Gas Institute , in 1927-1930 - Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR . Since 1928 - head of the Main Directorate for non-ferrous metals, gold and platinum of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR (“Glavzoloto”) and a member of the board of the USSR People’s Commissariat. In 1932-1937 - Deputy Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR.

Initiator of the TsNIGRI organization ^[2] . Since 1924, simultaneously with state activities, he conducted teaching at the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute, Moscow Mining Academy , and the Institute of National Economy named after G.V. Plekhanov .

Member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR . A candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) (1925-1937).

Arrested on September 23, 1937. Accused of counter-revolutionary activity. By a resolution of the October Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (October 11–12, 1937), he was removed from the list of candidates for membership in the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks as a “public enemy”. On February 8, 1938, the verdict was formally approved by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. He was executed on February 10, 1938.

May 19, 1956 rehabilitated posthumously. ^[3]

He officially married in 1915. His wife, Anna Vladimirovna, died in 1926 in Baku. Secondly A.P. Serebrovsky married in 1929 the daughter of a boundary engineer V.P. Lukyanov - Eugenia, with whom he lived until his death. E.V.Serebrovskaya followed her husband was repressed and twice visited the Gulag. In 1930, the Serebrovskys had a daughter - Inna Alexandrovna, who became a teacher and achieved rehabilitation of her father and mother ^[4] .

He was awarded the Order of Lenin (1931), the Order of the Red Banner of the Azerbaijan SSR (1921) ^[5]

• Serebrovsky A.P. Industrial cold and its use in food preservation. - M., 1911. - 156 p.
• Serebrovsky A.P. Theory and practice of thermal insulation. Guidance in the design and construction of cold warehouses, ice-wagons, refrigerated vessels and factory heating plants. - M .: publishing house of a book juridich. store "Law" I.K. Golubeva, 1913. - 352 p.
• Serebrovsky A.P. The revolution and wages of workers in the metal industry. Wage growth and the situation of labor productivity in connection with the Tariff Agreement concluded by the Union of Metal Workers with the Mechanical Department of the Island of Manufacturers and Breeders. - Petrograd, 1917. - 64 p.
• Serebrovsky A.P. Management of factory enterprises, management experience for people working in the metal industry. -M .: VSNH, 1919. - 208 p.
• Serebrov [Sky A.P.] In the January Days of 1905 // Proletarian Revolution. 1922. No 5. S. 194-200.
• Serebrovsky A.P. Azneft in the fifth year of nationalization (analysis of field work). - Baku: Publishing house of the club "Red Oil Worker", 1924. - 41 p.
• Serebrovsky A.P. Oil and gas industry in America. Ed. 2. - M .: MCC VSNH, 1925 .-- 425 p.
• Serebrovsky A.P. Experience in the application of American methods in the oil industry. - Baku: Azneft publication, 1929. - 23 p.
• Serebrovsky A.P. Gold industry. - Moscow: Acad. USSR Sciences 1935. - T.1 "USA" - 337 s; T.2. "USSR" - 617 p.
• Serebrovsky A.P. On the Golden Front. From the series “Memoirs of Business Managers. Under the General Editing of B. M. Tal. Book One. - Moscow: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1936. - 422 pp.
• Serebrovsky A.P. On the oil front / ed. Yu. V. Evdoshenko. - M .: Publishing house "Oil Economy", 2015. - 330 p. - ISBN 978-5-93623-032-5

• Serebrovsky, Alexander Pavlovich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
• P. A. Arushanov “Serebrovsky Alexander Pavlovich” - “Oil Industry”
• A Handbook on the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991
• Evdoshenko Yu.V. Alexander Serebrovsky. Milestones of political biography // On the oil front / A. P. Serebrovsky; [ed. Yu. V. Evdoshenko]. - M.: Publishing House "Oil Economy", 2015. S. 4 - 44.
• G. D. Najafov. The whole flame of a devoted heart: About A.P. Serebrovsky . - M .: Politizdat, 1990 .-- 238 p. - 50,000 copies. - ISBN 5-250-00916-6 .