Starotorzhsky, Alexander Pavlovich

Born in the family of a peasant middle peasant, a carpenter.

Education: graduated from a three-year parochial school in the village of Zhilino, a carpentry-turning department of the lower handicraft school of the Ministry of Public Education in the Grigorievtsevo estate of Soligalichsky district, in 1916 - evening polytechnic courses of the Society of Peoples University (Petrograd), in 1932 - courses in training in graduate school at the All-Union State Scientific Research Institute, in 1935 - postgraduate education in the All-Union State Scientific Research Institute. He had the academic title of associate professor (1937).

From 1911 he worked as a joiner in Kronstadt and Petrograd. In 1914, he actively participated in organizing strikes at joinery and furniture enterprises. In 1914-1916 - volunteer of the Evening Polytechnic Courses of the Society of Peoples' Universities (Petrograd). From May 1916 to December 1917 served in the Russian army.

In 1917 he joined the RSDLP. From March 1918 to March 1919 - Member of the Presidium, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Kostroma Volost Council. Then, until February 1921, he served in the Red Army.

He changed his surname during his marriage on October 21, 1919, adopting his wife’s surname (at her insistence).

In 1920-1938 was on party, soviet, economic and teaching work:

• April-August 1920 - Head of the Political Education Department of the Constantinograd District Military Commissariat (Poltava Province),
• 1921—1922 - executive secretary of the Soligach district committee of the RCP (b), chairman of the executive committee of the Soligach district Council (Perm province),
• 1922-1923 - Chairman of the district branch of the Kostroma Provincial Union of Consumer Societies,
• 1923-1925 - Head, Chairman of the Galich District Union of Consumer Cooperatives (Kostroma Province),
• 1925-1928 - Chairman of the Board of the Kostroma provincial joint stock company "Gubtorg",
• 1928-1929 - Director of the Kostroma Provincial Trust of the local industry "Promkombinat",
• April-October 1929 - Chairman of the Kostroma District Planning Commission,
• 1929-1931 - Director of the flax farm “Zavety Ilyich” (Buysky District, Ivanovo Industrial Region),
• 1931-1932 - Senior Inspector, Head of the Department of Mechanization and Electrification of the All-Union Flax Hemp Trust,
• 1933-1935 - and. about. Associate Professor of the Organization of Agricultural Socialist Enterprise of the 1st Moscow Higher Communist School named after LM Kaganovich
• 1935-1937 - Head of the planning sector of state farms of the All-Union State Scientific-Research Institute, associate professor of the department of socialist agricultural production of the Moscow Institute of Land Management,
• 1937-1938 - Director of the Saratov Agricultural Institute .

Then - in senior government positions:

• 1938-1940 - and. about. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kalinin Regional Council
• 1940-1944 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kalinin Regional Council,
• 1944-1946 - Deputy Chairman of SNK RSFSR.

Since 1946 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bryansk Regional Council.

He was elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 1 and 3 convocations.

He died on May 25, 1950 in Bryansk.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin (in April 1943 - for the construction of fortifications) and the Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree (1945).

• Handbook of the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991
• Tver archives in the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945: to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Kalinin. Larisa Sorina, Administration of the Tver Region. Archive department, Russian Society of Historians-Archivists. Tver Branch archive department of the administration of the Tver region, 2001
• Korsakov S. N. The Tver leaders: the party, the Soviets, the Komsomol. Tver, 2002
• (Autobiography of A.P. Starotorzhsky (1933), documents on education, employment record, personal records on personnel registration, service certificates, medal book and certificates to medals. Obituary / Archive of the Tver Region
• Notebook of A.P. Starotorzhsky (1948).
• Memoirs of K. N. Solov'eva about A.P. Starotorzhskiy (1979). Reviews on the pedagogical work of A. P. Starotorzhsky at the Higher Communist School of Agriculture (VKSSh) in 1933-1935. and at the Moscow Institute of Land Management in 1936-1937. (1936-1938).
• Articles about A.P. Starotorzhsky in the Znamya Ilyich newspaper (Kostroma region, 1978).
• Telegrams from different persons to E. L. Starotorzhskaya with condolences in connection with the death of her husband (1950).
• Photos of A.P. Starotorzhsky were individual (1932–1944), among workers of the regional consumer associations of the Kostroma region (1922–1923), in the group of partisans and in the city of Kalinin liberated from fascists with M.I. Kalinin in 1942; in groups of colleagues, teachers and students, party and Soviet workers, deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1932-1945)).