Gorlinsky, Nikolai Dmitrievich

He was born in a Ukrainian family of a middle peasant (later his father worked at a shipyard). At the age of 11, without graduating from high school, he began his career in 1918 as a shepherd , then as a student in a shoe shop, who was sent to bookkeeping . From April 1920, at the age of 13, he worked in the organs of the Cheka as a clerk, and then as a registrar in the county and district offices of the Sumy region , and in May 1930 he switched to operational work in the regional departments of the OGPU Konotop and Sumy . Member of the CPSU (b) since 1931. Changed the dissonant surname "Drishchev" to "Gorlinsky."

In March 1932 he was sent to study at the OGPU Central School in Moscow. After studying in February 1937, he worked as the head of the department at the UNKVD of Kharkov and Chernigov regions , then in 1938 he was the operations officer of the 4th department of the GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR in Moscow. Since December 1938 he was the 2nd Deputy Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR .

From August 1940 - in the central office for leadership, deputy head of the 3rd (counterintelligence) department of the GUGB NKVD-NKGB, head of the 3rd Directorate of the NKVD from July 31, 1941 to August 11, 1942. In connection with the advance of the Wehrmacht to the Caucasus , Gorlinsky was entrusted with the leadership of the fight against banditry in the Stavropol Territory (as well as the protection of the passes of the Caucasus Range at the North Caucasus Front). He leads a punitive expedition against, mainly, the Cossack population. From May 7, 1943 - head of the Office of the NKGB in the Krasnodar Territory , where he continued repression against the Cossacks.

Gorlinsky participated in the organization of emergency protection of the Tehran Conference .

From September 1945 to May 1947 - Authorized by the NKVD-NKGB in the Estonian SSR , and from May 1947 to February 1949 he again heads the UMGB in the Krasnodar Territory. Then, in February-April 1949, he was Minister of State Security of the Lithuanian SSR . He carried out large-scale arrests and expulsions of “bourgeois and anti-Soviet elements” from the Baltic states to Siberia and Central Asia .

From April 21, 1949 to August 29, 1951 headed the Office of the MGB in Leningrad . He led the arrests of persons involved in the Leningrad affair (such as N. A. Voznesensky, M. I. Rodionov, A. A. Kuznetsov, P. S. Popkov, Y. F. Kapustin, P. G. Lazutin) as chief UMGB in the Leningrad region . With the fall of V. S. Abakumov and the ensuing regular shocks to the MGB, Gorlinsky was dismissed by Order of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR No. 3866 of August 29, 1951 "for violating socialist legality." He was at the disposal of the MGB Personnel Department until October 25, 1951, after which he was transferred to the Camp Management system as deputy head of the Volzhsky UITL (December 13, 1951). For a short time he was deputy chief of ITL and construction No. 16 of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs for regime and operational work.

After the death of I.V. Stalin and the creation of a powerful Ministry of Internal Affairs under the leadership of L.P. Beria , in March 1953 Gorlinsky became the head of the 5th (economic) department of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was at the disposal of the KGB Personnel Department, on June 28, 1954 he was dismissed from the KGB for official non-compliance. He was accused of abuse of official position and embezzlement, as well as of organizing the Leningrad affair and for "gross violations of socialist legality," on November 23, 1954 he was deprived of his military rank by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR , and expelled from the party in 1956. From the end of 1954 to 1957 He worked as deputy head of the Construction and Installation Department (SMU) of the USSR Ministry of Secondary Engineering , and in 1957 he retired. At the end of 1964, he was reinstated in a military rank. He died in January 1965 from a heart attack .

Ranks

• Lieutenant GB (March 22, 1936);
• Captain GB
• GB Major, Major (March 14, 1940), completed bypassing the rank of Major of GB;
• Commissioner of GB (February 14, 1943);
• GB Commissioner 3rd rank (July 2, 1945);
• lieutenant general (July 9, 1945). ^[2]

Rewards

• Order of Lenin (05/12/1945)
• five orders of the Red Banner (04/26/1940, 03/08/1944 - ("For the eviction of Karachais, Kolyma, Chechens and Ingush") - the UPVS was canceled on 04/04/1962 , 11/03/1944 , 09/16/1945 - "For the maintenance of security of the Podsdamsky conference" , 11.24.1950);
• Kutuzov Order of the 2nd degree (February 24, 1945) - "For the maintenance of security of the Crimean Conference" ;
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (August 24, 1949) - "For the eviction from the Baltic states, Moldova and the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus" - abolished UPVS from 03/03/1964 ;
• two orders of the Red Star (September 20, 1943, October 25, 1943);
• medal “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”;
• medals.

• Counterintelligence. Shield and sword against Abwehr and the CIA
• Poltorak S. , Dlugolensky Y. , Bersenev V. , Firsov S. , Baykulova S. , Lurie V. , Kalenov P. , Rosenberg V. Leaders of St. Petersburg. Publisher: Neva, Olma-Press, 2003. ISBN 5-7654-2114-8 , ISBN 5-224-04128-7 .
• Berezhkov V.I. Petersburg Heads of state security agencies of St. Petersburg. 2005. ISBN 5-699-13233-3 .
• Ukrainian nationalist organizations during the Second World War. Documents. In two volumes. Volume 2, 1944-1945. Curriculum Vitae. S. 1024. ^[3]
• Maksimov S.G. Griffin chain. Publisher: AST, 2013. ISBN 978-5-17-077881-2 .
• Abramov V. Counterintelligence. Shield and sword against Abwehr and the CIA. M .: Yauza, Eksmo, 2006 .-- 336 p. ISBN 5-699-11282-0 .

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