Iosif Markovich Ostrovsky ( 1895 , Zvenigorodka , Zvenigorod district of the Kiev province , Russian Empire - June 21, 1937 , Moscow , RSFSR , Soviet Union ) - employee of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD , manager of affairs of the OGPU of the USSR , head of the Administrative Department of the NKVD of the USSR , head of the commandant's office OGPU / NKVD , Senior Major of State Security ( November 29, 1935 ).
| Joseph Markovich Ostrovsky | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Senior Major of State Security I.M. Ostrovsky | ||||
| Date of Birth | 1895 | |||
| Place of Birth | Zvenigorodka , Zvenigorod district of the Kiev province , Russian Empire | |||
| Date of death | June 21, 1937 | |||
| A place of death | Moscow , RSFSR , Soviet Union | |||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||
| Type of army | Cheka - OGPU - NKVD | |||
| Years of service | 1915 - 1937 | |||
| Rank |  | |||
| Part | 1st Finland Artillery Brigade 1st Special Cavalry Division | |||
| Commanded | Management of affairs of the OGPU of the USSR Administrative and economic management of the NKVD of the USSR Commandant Office of the OGPU - NKVD Highway Administration of the NKVD of the USSR | |||
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil war in Russia | |||
| Awards and prizes |
| |||
| Communications | M.P. Schreider | |||
Content
Biography
Born in the Jewish family of a small merchant. He graduated from Zvenigorodka elementary school in 1907 . The typesetter in the printing house of Nuremberg and Yuditsky in Zvenigorodka from May 1907 to May 1915 .
In the tsarist army, the gunner , then the senior fireworks of the 4th artillery division and the 1st Finland artillery brigade from May 1915 to November 1917 .
A member of the AKP (left) from November 1917 to August 1918 , then without a break in party experience he transferred to the RCP (B.) .
From November 1917, a member of the Central Committee of the army and navy at the Headquarters of the Commander- in - Chief N.V. Krylenko in Mogilev , until January 1918 . Then he was a member of the board of the commissariat of justice of the Astrakhan province and deputy commissioner of justice of the Astrakhan province from February 1918 to January 1919 , and head of the combat section of the Kiev provincial military commissariat from January 1919 . In the Red Army, head of the propaganda enlightenment of the Kiev provincial military registration and enlistment office in 1919 , head of the political department of the 1st Special Division in Kiev until September 1919 .
VChK-OGPU-NKVD
In October 1919 he was transferred to the organs of the Cheka , served in the system of Special Departments in Ukraine, and from January 1921 he was head of the Special Department of the 12th Army . Since March 1921, chairman of the Taganrog district Cheka, since 1922 head of the Mariupol district department of the GPU. Since September 1923, assistant to the head of the department of trade and industry of the Economic Administration (ESC) of the GPU. From October 1923 to January 1925 he was the head of the 2nd, in May-June 1924 - of the 3rd department, from November 1924 to May 1925 he was an assistant to the head of the ECU of the OGPU of the USSR. Since June 1925, the deputy plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU in the Urals and the head of the Secret Operational Directorate of the Embassy.
From January 1926 to June 1929, the head of the Moscow Customs . From September 1, 1929, the head of the Organizational Department, from January 27, 1930, the deputy head of the Administrative and Organizational Management (AOU) of the OGPU of the USSR. Since March 1930, head of the Economic Department of AOU OGPU of the USSR. From July 1931 he was deputy head of AOU OGPU of the USSR, from August 1931 - manager of affairs of OGPU of the USSR and head of the Economic Department. On February 20, 1933, the manager of affairs of the OGPU of the USSR, and on July 10, 1934, the head of the Administrative Department of the NKVD of the USSR. In 1934 - 1936, the commandant of the OGPU / NKVD was directly subordinate to I.M. Ostrovsky, who, among other things, was responsible for the execution of death sentences . On October 15, 1936 he was appointed head of the Highway Construction Department of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR.
Repression
March 29, 1937 arrested.
Ostrovsky, being in one of the cells of the Lefortovo prison , said with sad irony: “I never thought that I would be in a prison, the construction of which I myself was in charge of.” And then, patting the mighty walls with his hand, he added with satisfaction: "But the prison is still very well built, you can’t say anything." [one]
On June 20, 1937 he was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR and executed the next day. In 1957 he was rehabilitated posthumously.
Notes
- ↑ Schreider M.P. NKVD from the inside. Notes of the security officer. - Moscow: Return, 1995 .-- 506 p. - ISBN 5-7157-0062-0 .
Literature
- Petrov N.V., Skorkin K.V. Who led the NKVD, 1934-1941. Directory. - Moscow: Links, 1999 .-- 502 p. - ISBN 5-787-00032-3 .
- Abramov V. Jews in the KGB. Executioners and victims. - Moscow: Yauza: Eksmo, 2005 .-- ISBN 5-699-13762-9 .