Jan Petrovich Ostrov (November 14, 1896 , Leiasciem parish of Valka county of the Livonian province of the Russian Empire , now Latvia - † September 7, 1966 , Riga ) - Latvian Soviet leader, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Latvian SSR. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 2-4th convocations.
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| Birth | November 14, 1896 Valka County , Livonia Province |
| Death | September 7, 1966 (69 years old) Riga |
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Biography
Born in a peasant family. He graduated from the rural (rural) school and externally passed exams for the 5th grade of a real school. He worked in the agriculture of his father. In 1915 he was called up for military service. In 1915 - 1917 - a soldier of the Russian army. Member of the First World War.
In March 1917 he became a member of the RSDLP (b).
In 1917 - chairman of the company soldier’s committee and member of the regimental committee of the Latvian Rifle Regiment. After the October Revolution of 1917, he was one of the founders of the Red Guard detachments at party work in the Galgau and Madona Volosts.
In 1918 he was arrested by German troops and until January 1919 he was serving his sentence in a concentration camp. Until May 1919 he was at party work in Leiasciem parish, then he was in a partisan detachment. At the end of 1919 he voluntarily joined the Red Army.
In 1923 he entered the Communist University of the Western Peoples in Moscow. After graduation, he studied at graduate school. Then he taught at the Communist University for several years, and was in charge of his graduate school.
In 1937, probably suffered political repression. Until 1941, he taught at higher educational institutions of the Uzbek SSR. In 1941 he returned to Latvia and was appointed rector of the Jelgava Agricultural Academy.
In June 1941 - 1944 - in evacuation, he worked at the Central Asian State University in Tashkent.
Since 1944 - in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) of the Latvian SSR. He was elected secretary of the Riga City Committee of the Communist Party (b) of the Latvian SSR for propaganda.
In 1947 - 1953 - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR. At the same time, in 1950 - 1959 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Latvian SSR.
In 1953 - 1958 - Minister of Culture of the Latvian SSR.
Rewards
- The order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (11/23/1956)
- Order of the Red Star
- medals
Literature
- Yearbook of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1967. - Moscow, 1967.