Petr Janovich Vitolin ( Latvian: Pēteris Vītoliņš ); ( 1892 , the village of Lepinan, Ellern parish , Friedrichstadt county , Courland province - February 10, 1938 ) - Soviet party leader. Latvian . An active participant in the establishment of Soviet power in the Kaluga province . Member of the RSDLP since 1908 .
| Peter Yanovich Vitolin | |||||||
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| Pēteris Vītoliņš | |||||||
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| Successor | Medvedev, Kirill Vasilievich | ||||||
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| Successor | Artyomov, Mitrofan Prokhorovich | ||||||
| Birth | 1892 Lepinan village, Ellern parish , Friedrichstadt county , Courland province | ||||||
| Death | 1938 Moscow , the Kommunarka training ground | ||||||
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| The consignment | RSDLP (b) | ||||||
Biography
He studied at a rural school, then at a city school, from which he was expelled in 1907 . In 1910, he headed the Social Democratic organization of Courland , organized an underground printing press , which published the magazine "Comrade in Struggle".
In 1914 he was expelled from the party as a result of a conflict within the local organization of the RSDLP , but was soon restored. In 1916, for revolutionary activity, he was arrested and exiled to a settlement in Siberia .
After the amnesty declared by the Provisional Government , he moved to Kaluga to his sister (in March 1917 ). He was elected chairman of the Kaluga organization of the RSDLP (b) and editor of the newspaper Rassvet . From July 1917 to January 1919 he was the chairman of the Kaluga Provincial Committee of the RCP (B), and simultaneously from November 1917 to April 1918 he was the chairman of the Kaluga Provincial Executive Committee .
February 5, 1918 he proclaimed the creation of the Kaluga Soviet Republic , and himself - the chairman of its Council of People's Commissars. However, on April 26, he was suspended from work on the provincial executive committee, while remaining the head of the party organization.
In early 1919 , as a result of an internal party conflict, he was forced to leave Kaluga. Member of the Civil War, in January-August 1919 editor of the newspaper "Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda" of the Headquarters of the Southern Front. In March 1921 he participated in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion . Subsequently, he was at party, trade union and economic work. Last position (since 1935 ) - Head of the Fruit Production Department of the Moscow Regional Land Administration.
The delegate of the 8th, 9th and 10th congresses of the party. At the 5th All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, he was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee .
Arrested on June 19, 1937 . On February 10, 1938, he was shot at the Kommunarka firing range . In 1956 he was rehabilitated.
Wife - Anna Abramovna Osvenskaya ( 1908 - 1997 ). Daughter - Elena Petrovna Vitolina.
Sources
- Essays on the history of the Kaluga organization of the CPSU. Kaluga, 1967.
- History of the Kaluga party organization. Prioksky book publishing house. Tula, 1978.
- Bergovskaya I.N., Filimonov V. Ya. Kaluga Soviet Republic: History in documents. Kaluga, Golden Alley, 2012
- Returned Names https://web.archive.org/web/20140311193631/http://visz.nlr.ru/pers_info_dop/dop_info.php?id=10549
- Scheglov A.I. Strokoy - in the history of the party. Banner, December 25, 1982. On the 90th anniversary of P. Ya. Vitolin.
- Goloushkin V. Revolution faithful son. Stories about the veterans of the party. Banner, August 20, 1968. Photo.
- Kaluzhane - fighters for the power of the Soviets. Polygraphist, Kaluga, 1988.
- The Great October Socialist Revolution — the encyclopedia of Georgy Nazarovich Golikov, M. And Kuznetsov. Owls Encyclopedia, 1977 - Total Pages: 711