Alekseev, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Chekist)

He was born in the family of the district agronomist district and national teacher. After the death of her father, the family moved from Rzhev to Kharkov in 1907.

In 1910, at the age of 17, he joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party . Older brother and sisters were also Social Revolutionaries.

In 1912 he graduated from the Kharkov gymnasium. He studied one course at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University, and then entered the law faculty of Kharkov University.

He took a prominent place among the Kharkov Social Revolutionaries, becoming a member of the illegal provincial committee of the party.

In 1915, under Art. 102, part 1 was sentenced to four years of hard labor, which were replaced by a four-year exile in the village of Tulun, Irkutsk Province.

After the February Revolution, he was released from exile, was mobilized in the army at the beginning of 1917, and returned to Kharkov in May. He worked in the Kharkov provincial committee of the Left Socialist-Internationalists party. At first, Nikolay was elected deputy chairman of the Council of Peasant Deputies in Kharkov, and in June he became a member of the presidium of the 1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd.

After the October Revolution and the formation of the Council of People's Commissars, he was Deputy Commissar of Agriculture Kolegayev . It was Kolegaev and Alekseev who carried out the Decree on the socialization of the land .

He was elected from Kharkov on the list of Social Revolutionaries to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly . Participated in his only meeting.

In 1918-1919, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Socialist-Wrestlers . In 1920, together with most of the wrestlers, he joined the RCP (B.) . From February 1920 to January 1921, head of the organizational department of the Kharkov Provincial Committee of the RCP (b) ^[1] .

In GPU-NKVD

From 1921 he worked in the GPU-OGPU-NKVD. Under the leadership of Alekseev, a large group of agents who worked for the INO GPU was assembled, which went on a trip abroad to Europe to organize the surveillance of Russian émigré socialists. The group included M.S. Gorb (Rozman) , I.V. Zaporozhets , L.N. Zinchenko, Zelenin. Alekseev worked quite effectively at the INO GPU in Paris for 13 months, returning to Moscow in September 1922.

He was deputy head of the Secret-operational management (SOU) GPU Yakov Agranova .

In 1924 he was sent by the INO GPU resident in London.

After returning from London, from July 1925 - deputy head, and from 1926 - head of the Information Department of the OGPU.

Since February 1930, Alekseev has been the authorized representative of the OGPU in the Central Black Earth region . He was in charge of the "kulak operation", during which tens of thousands of peasants were arrested and deported to the Northern Territory in the region. By May 1930, Alekseev reported that 77.2 thousand households, or more than 300 thousand people, were “dispossessed”.

In the spring of 1932, Alekseev was appointed plenipotentiary of the OGPU in the West Siberian Territory , replacing L. Zakovsky in this position.

Under the leadership of Alekseev, the Chekists fabricated large-scale cases: the case of a "plot in agriculture" and the case of a "White Guard plot."

Later - Assistant Chief of the NKVD GULAG.

In 1937, the deputy head of Volgostroy . Arrested in June 1937, convicted "in a special order." Shot Rehabilitated in 1956.

• Wife - Evgenia Nikonovna Weizman.

• Badge "Honorary Worker of the Cheka-GPU" (1927)

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