Trojanker, Benedict Ustinovich

Born in a Jewish family of an accountant oil warehouse , received a secondary education . He graduated from the heder and 2-class urban school . Due to lack of funds, he did not study further, but began to work, helping his father as a loader . From autumn 1915 he worked independently in various positions ( as a laborer , a mechanic assistant at a watch factory) in Yekaterinoslav and Odessa . At the same time he studied at the evening general education courses and gave private lessons . In 1915, the external student passed the exams for five classes of the gymnasium . A member of the RCP (b) from 1917, after the February Revolution in 1917, conducted agitational work in favor of the Bolsheviks . After the occupation of Ukraine by German troops was left there for underground work. In the winter of 1918, from the Uman, an underground Bolshevik committee was sent to Russia to study the experience of Soviet construction. He worked in Petrograd as the organizer of the Vasileostrovsky District Komsomol Committee, served as a propagandist for the Petrograd Committee of the RCP (b).

In the Red Army from May 1918. In the 7th Army he was elected the organizer (secretary) of the party collective of the 2nd Separate Rifle Regiment . Member of the fighting with the troops of General N. N. Yudenich . Soon he was recalled from the army and again sent to work in the Vasileostrovsky District Committee of the RCP (b), where he was elected head of the agitation and propaganda department, and then secretary of this district committee. In May 1920, as part of a group of leading party workers in Petrograd, he was sent to the northern sector of the Western Front , where he served as the organizer of the party collective of the 483rd regiment of the 54th Infantry Division . Then he acted as secretary and assistant chief of the political department of the 43rd Infantry Division . In June 1921, he was transferred to the Separate Caucasian Army to the position of instructor-organizer of the political department of the 14th Infantry Division . From September 1921 he worked as the head of the organizational department of the political department of the 2nd Caucasian Corps . From January to June 1922 the head of the political department of a separate Dagestan rifle brigade . From June 1922 the military commissar and head of the political department of the 13th Dagestan rifle division . From September 1923 the head of the organizational department of the political department of the North Caucasus Military District . From March to September 1925, the military commissar and head of the political department of the 48th rifle division . From October 1925 the head of the organizational department, and then from January 1926 the deputy head of the political department of the Moscow Military District . From September 1928 to February 1929 the senior inspector of the 1st Division of the Political Directorate of the Red Army . Since February 1929, deputy head of the political department of the Belarusian Military District . From October 1930 he was a student of Marxism-Leninism courses under the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) . He did not finish his studies, being appointed in March 1932 as the head of the department of culture and propaganda of the Political Directorate of the Red Army. From May 1933 Assistant Chief of the Red Army Air Force for political affairs. From September 1935 head of the department of the governing political bodies of the Political Directorate of the Red Army. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1936. Member of the Moscow Committee of the CPSU (b) . From May 1937 a member of the Military Council of the Moscow Military District, also a member of the Military Council of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR .

He was arrested on November 21, 1937. ^[2] It appears in the Stalinist list compiled by N. I. Ezhov ^[3] convicts to the 1st category (shooting). ^[4] On July 28, 1938, by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court , he was sentenced to capital punishment ministry , shot on the day of the sentence being pronounced at the Butovo-Kommunark training ground. Rehabilitated January 21, 1956 by the definition of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court.

Brother - Solomon Ustinovich Troyanker (1909–1973).

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