Lisitsyn, Nikolai Vasilievich

Nikolai Lisitsyn was born in 1891 in the village of Dobrino, Volokolamsk Uyezd ( Moscow province ), the Russian Empire in the family of Vasily Lisitsyn ^[1] . There is no evidence of the education of Nikolai ^[2] .

Nicholas joined the RSDLP at the age of 19, in 1910, immediately joining the Bolsheviks ^[1] .

In 1917, almost immediately after the October Revolution , Nikolai Lisitsyn was elected to the united Moscow Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies (Moscow Soviet), which became the highest authority in the city (November 14). He became a member of the first executive committee of the Council (among 63 Bolsheviks), headed by Mikhail Pokrovsky . In January 1918, Lisitsyn became a member of the newly formed Presidium of the Moscow City Council ^[1] .

After the Bolsheviks transferred the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow , Nikolai Vasilievich found himself busy with party work in the Central Committee . From April 1919 to 1920, he headed the Information and Statistics Department of the Central Committee of the RCP (B.) . After dividing the latter into the Information Department and the Statistical Departments ^{[3] [4]} , Lisitsyn became the head of the first of them (1920-1921) ^[1] .

On May 19, 1921, the secretariat of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) at its meeting rejected the request of the poet Fyodor Sologub (named in the documents “F. Sollogub”) to travel abroad - the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) of Ukraine Vyacheslav Molotov and the head of the department were present when considering this petition N. V. Lisitsyn ^{[5] [6]} . In mid-July 1921, Sologub still received permission to leave Trotsky .

In 1922, Nikolai Lisitsyn replaced Peter Zalutsky as head of the Organizational and Instructor Department of the Central Committee of the RCP (B.) . In June 1922, Lisitsyn transferred this post to Lazar Kaganovich ^{[1] [7]} .

From 1923 to 1930, Nikolai Vasilievich was continuously a member of the Central Control Commission (CCK) of the CPSU (B.) , Where he was elected four times: in 1923 (XII convocation), 1924 (XIII), 1925 (XIV) and 1927 (XV) ^{[1 ]} . From June 2, 1924 to June 26, 1930, Lisitsyn was a member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission ^[8] .

Since 1924, Nikolai Lisitsyn has been in the public service: he is a member of the Commission for the Accounting and Implementation of State Funds (ComEKOSO on State Funds) of the Labor and Defense Council , chaired by Reuben Levin ^[9] . He continued to be a member of ECOSOC in 1936 ^[10] .

In 1925, 1927-1929, Lisitsyn was deputy People's Commissars of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection (Rabkrin) of the RSFSR Nikolai Shvernik ^[11] and Nikifor Ilyin (Rabkrin of the entire USSR in those years was headed by Sergo Ordzhonikidze ) ^[12] . In 1929, Nikolai Lisitsyn worked as deputy chairman of the Council of Unions of Agricultural Cooperation. Then, in 1930, he transferred to the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture (People’s Commissariat) of the RSFSR , where he was Deputy People’s Commissar Alexander Muralov , and in May 17, 1934 he himself became the head of this People’s Commissar ^[1] .

According to the article “Shock Attention - to the Spring Seva!”, Printed during the period of continuous collectivization , “deputy commissars and members of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR [comrades] Quiring, Lisitsyn, Muravleva, Kubanin, Dmitriev, Sheydin and individual heads will leave for the main agricultural regions management. Local land authorities were invited to carry out a special mobilization of workers to campaign for filling in seed funds and for grain exchange, ensuring that the control figures of the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR were met (winter 1930/1931) ^[13] .

In 1936, the People's Commissar Lisitsyn contributed to the organization of the training and experimental site of the All-Russian Research Institute of Horticulture , which conducted experimental work with dwarf fruit crops ^[14] .

During the Great Terror , Lisitsyn was removed from the post of People’s Commissar of Agriculture (in December 1937, after 3.5 years of work at the head of the People’s Commissar) ^[1] . At this time, he lived in Moscow, on Novinsky Boulevard ^[2] in the house of the People's Commissariat of Finance . Three months later, on February 27, 1938, he was arrested.

According to the “Summary of the most important testimonies of those arrested by the GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR ” on April 7, 1938 ^[15] , the former People’s Commissar of the RSFSR N. V. Lisitsyn was questioned by investigator Panteleev ^[16] and “admitted that he [Lisitsyn] is a member of the anti-Soviet organization right, which existed in the system of the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR . ” In these self-incriminating testimonies, Lisitsyn claimed that he was recruited into the anti-Soviet organization in the winter of 1932-1933 by Alexander Muralov (his immediate supervisor). He also showed that other members of the organization were Fyodor Vereninov, deputy head of the People’s Commissariat, already arrested by that time, ^[17] member of the People’s Collegium’s board Mikhail Kubanin ^{[18] [19]} , and the head of the planning and finance department N. A. Knipst ^[20] , and the head the vegetable-potato department Vladimir Ziskind ^[21] and the head of the fruit department Yu. P. Vasiliev ^[22] . “The main objective of the organization was wrecking in agriculture” ^{[15] [23]} .

On August 22, 1938, Nikolai Vasilievich Lisitsyn was convicted by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charges of participating in the activities of a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization. He was shot on the same day at the Kommunark range ^[2] .

Nikolai Lisitsyn was rehabilitated on January 26, 1957 by the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR ^{[2] [24]} .

• N. V. Lisitsyn , On the struggle for the fulfillment and overfulfillment of the agricultural plan of 1936 [Text] / N. V. Lisitsyn. - Moscow: Nar. com agriculture of the RSFSR, 1936. - Obl., 27 p.
• N. V. Lisitsyn , “More attention to gardening” // Fruits and vegetables [Journal], No. 9, 1935 ^[25] .
• K. N. Kutler, Abstract on the state revenue technique [Text] / Comp. K.N. Kutler, E.P. Smirnov, N.V. Lisitsyn ; Researcher method. office of the People's Commissariat of Finance of the RSFSR. - Leningrad: Inf.-publ. Bureau of Lenobletorgotdel, 1938 (Type. Art. "Sov. Printer"). - 98 p.
• All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin. Section of fruits and vegetables. Plenum (1936. January) // Grape Culture [Text]: Reports and decisions of the plenum lll Sections of fruit and vegetable crops: Jan. 25-28. 1936 / Ed. N.V. Lisitsyna . - Moscow: Publishing House Vses. Acad. S.-kh. sciences them. V.I. Lenin, 1937 (type. Publishing House "Peasant Gas."). - Region., 168 p. - (Proceedings of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin; Issue XXIII. Part 2).
• All-Union Academy of Agricultural sciences them. V.I. Lenin. Section of fruits and vegetables. Plenum (1936, January). Potato Culture in the South and Southeast of the USSR [Text]: Reports and decisions of the I plenum of the Fruit and Vegetable Section / Ed. N.V. Lisitsyna . - Moscow: Publishing House Vses. Acad. S.-kh. sciences them. V.I. Lenin, 1936 (1 journal. Type. Onti). - Obl., 70, [2] p. - (Proceedings of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin; Issue 12).

• F. M. Solovey, Universal nightingale cultivator “Michurinets” of the UKS-4M brand [Text]: Guidelines for the use of the cultivator / F. M. Nightingale; [Introduction: Nar. com land RSFSR Lisitsyn ]; Control Horticulture NKZ RSFSR. - Moscow: People's Commissariat of the RSFSR, 1937 (type. Higher. School of propagandists named after Ya. M. Sverdlov at the Central Committee of the CPSU (b)). - Region., 55 p.

• 1924 - Commission for the Accounting and Implementation of State Funds (ComEKOSO on State Funds) of the Council of Labor and Defense : Moscow , Ilyinka Street , 14, 1st floor, phone. 3-95-61 ^[9] .
• 1925 - People’s Commissariat of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspectorate of the RSFSR: Moscow , Ilyinka Street 21, 4th entrance, 2nd floor, room 285, telephone number. 2-96-57 ^[11] .
• 1936 - People’s Commissariat of Agriculture of the RSFSR (People's Commissariat of Agriculture, NKZ RSFSR): Moscow , Staraya Ploshchad , 5/8; t. comm. 13-00 [People's Commissar of Agriculture of the RSFSR Lisitsyn] ^[10] .
• 1938 - Moscow , Novinsky Boulevard, building 25, building. 1, apt. 50 (House of the People's Commissariat of Finance) ^[2] .

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• Nikolai Vasilievich Lisitsyn // Central Archive of the FSB of Russia ^[2] .
• Shooting lists: Moscow, 1937-1941: Kommunarka, Butovo. - M., 2000 ^[24] .
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