Arkady Yakovlevich Gertsovsky ( 1904 - 1956 ) - Head of the First Special Department of the NKVD of the USSR, Major General ( 1943 ). [2]
| Arkady Yakovlevich Hertsovsky | ||||||||||
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 Major General A. Ya. Gertsovsky | ||||||||||
| Date of Birth | 1904 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | Novoselitsa village, Khotinsky district , Bessarabian province , Russian Empire [1] | |||||||||
| Date of death | 1956 | |||||||||
| Place of death | Soviet Union | |||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire RSFSR  the USSR | |||||||||
| Type of army | Cheka - OGPU - NKVD - NKGB - MGB - Ministry of Internal Affairs | |||||||||
| Years of service | 1920 - 1953 | |||||||||
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Biography
Born in March 1904 in the village of Novoselitsa, Khotyn uyezd, Bessarabsk province, in the family of the storekeeper (former peasant) Yakov Antonovich Gertsovsky. Ukrainian [3] . He graduated from the three classes of the parish school , then six classes of the gymnasium in the city of Odessa . He worked as a laborer, a fireman on the construction of the Vygoda – Dniester railway, and the Vygoda station [4] .
In the bodies of the ChK-OGPU-NKVD-NKGB-MGB-MVD: clerk, head of the account of the arrested, assistant head and head of the registration department of the Odessa Provincial Cheka - the provincial branch of the GPU (February 1920 - July 1923); registrar, senior controller of the OCR, technical secretary of the CCA under the board of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR ( Kharkov , July 1923-1925); the head of the bureau of registration of the Center for Reconstruction and Development, the assistant of the authorized representative, the authorized representative, the assistant to the head of the USO GPU USSR (Kharkov, 1925 - January 1932) Senior Inspector of the Center for Civil Protection of the OGPU of the USSR (January 25, 1932 - April 26, 1932); Senior Inspector of the USO OGPU USSR (April 26, 1932 - July 10, 1934); senior inspector of the Main Directorate of the State Security Directorate of NKVD of the USSR (July 10, 1934 - May 3, 1936) senior inspector of the accounting and archival department of the GUGB NKVD of the USSR (May 3, 1936 - November 28, 1936); senior inspector of the registration and registration department - 8 department of the GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR (January 28, 1936 - June 1, 1937); Deputy Head of the 2nd Division of the 8th Division of the GUGB NKVD of the USSR (June 1, 1937 - March 28, 1938); Deputy Head of the 2nd Division of the Department of Operations, Registration and Statistics of the NKVD of the USSR (March 28, 1938 - October 22, 1938); Head of the 3rd Division of the 1st Special Department of the NKVD of the USSR (October 22, 1938 - November 1, 1938); assistant chief of the 1st special department of the NKVD of the USSR (November 1, 1938 - March 1, 1939); deputy chief of the 1st special department of the NKVD of the USSR (March 1, 1939 - February 28, 1941), at the same time he studied at the special department at the party committee of the NKVD of the USSR (1940-1941); chief of the 1st special department of the NKVD of the USSR (February 28, 1941 - July 31, 1941); Deputy Head of the 1st Special Department of the NKVD of the USSR (July 31, 1941 - January 24, 1942); chief of the 1st special department of the NKVD of the USSR (January 24, 1942 - May 12, 1943); Head of Division A, NKGB-MGB of the USSR (May 2, 1943 - March 1, 1953); Head of the 1st Special Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (April 22, 1953 - October 3, 1953). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1939. [4] .
Arrested on 03.10.53 [5] . Sentenced by the Supreme Military Council of the USSR 06.07.55 to 10 years in prison [6] .
As the head of the 1st special department, he “legalized” the criminal procedure, having established in his “regulations on internal prisons” that all complaints of those arrested “regardless of who they are addressed to” should be forwarded to the investigator investigating the case of this arrested person, which led to the mass concealment from the party-Soviet bodies of complaints of those arrested.
Ranks
Art. Lieutenant GB 05.01.36; Captain GB 25.03.39; Major GB 02.22.42; Commissioner GB 02.14.43; Major General 07/09/45. Deprived of the rank of Major General 29.07.55 Post. CM of the USSR № 1 245-762ss "as a convicted ECCU of the USSR."
Awards
Order of Lenin 04/30/46; 2 orders of the Red Banner 03.11.44, 01.06.51; Order of the Red Star 09/20/43; Order "Badge of Honor" 04/26/40; medals; badge "Honorary Worker of the Cheka-GPU (XV)" 08/31/37.
Literature
- N. V. Petrov, Who Directed the State Security Bodies, 1941-1954: A Handbook. - M .: "Memorial"; "Links", 2010. - p. 282-283. - ISBN 5-7870-0109-9 .
- Sudoplatov A.P. Secret Life of General Sudoplatov. Truth and fiction about my father. Book 2. M., Olma-Press - Sovremennik, 1998.
Notes
- ↑ Now Khotyn region , Chernivtsi region , Ukraine .
- ↑ Chronicle of the Great War "Participants" Hertsovsky, Arkady Yakovlevich "Biography
- ↑ N.V. Petrov “Who led the state security organs” (p. 282)
- ↑ 1 2 Petrov N.V. Who led the state security organs, 1941–1954: Reference book. - M .: "Memorial"; "Links", 2010. - p. 282-283. - ISBN 5-7870-0109-9 .
- ↑ Copies of the protocols of interrogation of witness A. Ya. Gertsovsky and the accused L. Ye. Wlodzimirsky of August 4, 1953
- ↑ Letter from R. A. Rudenko to the Central Committee of the CPSU of April 28, 1955 on the completion of the investigation in the case of A. Ya. Gertsovsky