Tarasyuk, Sergey Artemievich

From the family of a Belarusian railway conductor, a retired non-commissioned officer of the Life Guards of the Lithuanian Regiment. He graduated from the 8th grade of the gymnasium in New Peterhof, entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Petrograd (he did not finish the first course “as if he had not paid a fee for the spring of 1917”). In the years 1916-1919. - clerk of the part of technical control (Petrograd), Construction Department of the Volkhovo-Rybinsk, South Siberian Railway, clerk, clerk, head of the business department, economic department of the SNH of the Northern Region. In 1918 he joined the RCP (b). In the years 1919-1920. - in the Red Army in economic positions: the commissar of military roads and the transportation and transportation unit of the 13th Army; Head of the transport and transportation unit of the 14th Army, Commissioner of the Directorate of the Extraordinary Commissioner for Fuel, Commissioner of the Procurement Expedition of the grain fodder Next - in the ChK-GPU-NKVD:

• 1920-1921 - Assistant Commissioner of the Petrograd Extraordinary Commission, Head of the Military Commandant's Office (Petrograd),
• May-October 1921 - Head of the 10th Ostrovsky border branch of the Cheka
• 1921-1922 - Head of the second border branch of the Cheka - GPU,
• 1922 - Deputy Head of the Karelian Regional Department of the GPU,
• 1922-1923, - Head of the Cherepovets provincial department of the GPU,
• 1923-1924 - Head of the seventh Kingisepp border detachment of the GPU,
• 1924-1925 - Head of the 31st Kerch border detachment of the GPU,
• March-May 1925 - Assistant to the Head of the Economic Department of the Plenipotentiary Representation of the OGPU in the North Caucasus Region,
• 1925-1926 - Head of the 34th Tuapse border detachment of the GPU,
• January-September 1926 - Head of the 32nd Novorossiysk border detachment of the GPU,
• 1926-1929 - Head of the Salsky district department of the GPU,
• May-December 1929 - assistant to the head of the Vladikavkaz district department of the GPU,
• 1929-1930 - Head of the Shakhtinsky-Donetsk district department - the operational sector of the GPU,
• 1930-1931 - Deputy Head of the Dagestan Regional Department of the GPU,
• 1931-1934 - Head of the Dagestan Regional Department of the GPU,
• February-July 1934 - Chairman of the GPU under the SNK of the Tajik SSR,
• 1934-1937 - People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Tajik SSR. This period was marked by the inclusion of a special troika created by order of the NKVD of the USSR dated July 30, 1937 No. 00447 ^[1] and active participation in the Stalinist repressions ^[2] .

One of the most striking figures of the NKVD repression camp apparatus (as described by Leo Razgon and Yuri Navrotsky).

• 1937-1941 - Head of the Ivdel Forced Labor Camp of the NKVD,

“According to the results of the 1937-1938 season, the camp departments achieved high results in the harvesting and transportation of wood. The mole rafting of the forest along Lozva continued until the late autumn of 1938 and the intended volumes were significantly exceeded. Probably these indicators saved S. A. Tarasyuk from arrest. In December 1938, during the reception and delivery of the NKVD cases from Yezhov to Beria, a corresponding act was prepared, which recorded a short but succinct summary of the operation of the system of the legerny system: “For a number of years, the GULAG was headed by people who turned out to be enemies.” On December 12, 1938, on the staff of the Special Commissioner of the NKVD of the USSR, the list of employees who have incriminating materials includes IvdelLAG chief of state security S. Tarasyuk, who was accused of "friendly relations and drunkenness with the enemies of the people, and the promotion of their non-disclosure" , as well as the fact that he “in practical work drew a line bordering on betrayal”. However, no repressive or disciplinary measures were taken against S. A. Tarasyuk ”(Yu. A. Navrotsky ^[3] )

• May-October 1941 - head of the department of the Theological Forced Labor Camp and the construction of the NKVD aluminum smelter,
• September-October 1941 - head of the construction department of the NKVD Lobvinsky Hydrolysis Plant,
• 1941-1942 - Head of the Aktobe Forced Labor Camp of the NKVD,
• May-October 1942 - Head of the Department of the Bereznyakovsky Forced Labor Camp of the NKVD,
• 1942-1944 - Head of the Ust-Vymsky forced labor camp of the NKVD.

Since March 1944 - Head of the Department of the Usolsky Forced Labor Camp of the NKVD - Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Colonel of State Security (1943).

Brother - Tarasyuk Ivan Artemievich, born in 1898, member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1919-1921, served in the Cheka and the ugorazysk until 1930, head. equipment and spare parts sector of Lenmyasokombinat. He was arrested in 1921. We were convicted in 1924 for 2 years of exile to the Urals. He was arrested again on September 5, 1936. On September 10, 1937, he was sentenced by the Special Conference of the NKVD of the USSR for 5 years in prison for “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activity”. He served time in Sevvostlag (Kolyma). On May 5, 1938, the three UNKVD on Dalstroy was sentenced to capital punishment. Shot on June 5, 1938 (his mother-in-law Adelgeida Vasilyevna Chumakova died in blockade in June 1942). Rehabilitated in 1968

During his service in the NKVD he had awards: Order of Lenin, Order of the Badge of Honor (May 11, 1944), Order of the Red Banner (November 3, 1944), Badge of Honor of the Cheka-GPU (1932), Badge "Honored Worker of the NKVD" (1944), medal "For the Victory over Germany" (1945).

The writer Leo Acceleration about the rules in Ustvymlag in the chapter of memoirs “Colonel Tarasyuk”: “In our camp there were smart and stupid bosses, kind and evil. Tarasyuk was completely different ... we all soon felt his iron, purposeful will. He drove through all camps, drove out thieves from all work related to food, and put in these positions only "fifty-eighth". The bookkeepers of the foodstuff, captors and cooks turned pale with fear when Tarasyuk appeared in the zone. Those who were able to go into the woods were fed better than a convoy, better than civilians ... Medicines appeared, free doctors arrived, and they installed special anti-pellrosis rations. Tarasyuk restored the working capacity of the camp with the energy of a talented and strong-willed administrator. ” At the same time, he did not set the life of people who are not able to fulfill the tasks set for the organization of production or those who do not fulfill the approved production standards. When accepting the camp facilities of the Ust-Vymsky ITL, his first order, S. A. Tarasyuk canceled the issuance of "premium rations" to administrative and technical employees and camp service staff, and also canceled additional meals for the recovering team, having found out that the "goners" would not be able to return to the left ordering these food funds to be transferred to those working in the forest. By this he achieved an increase in the standards for the production of logging so necessary to the front, but condemned the camp "goners" to death: "The words" master of life and death "must be understood quite literally. And this applied to civilians as much as to prisoners. All civilians were on the armor, it was enough to order Tarasyuk to “make a reservation” - and any boss went to the front ... He encouraged well-working prisoners, especially distinguished record-breakers allowed them to bring women to their huts without fear of a warder. To the doctors and tailors who came to his mansion, the maid carried out a slice of white bread, buttered with butter ... And in the camp a strict order was maintained, in which it was good for those who knew how to cut the forest well, and those who didn’t matter, according to for what reasons - they didn’t know how to cut this forest. There was an order. There was even justice - if you can use this word so strange here ... After all, under Tarasyuk, the heads of the camps did not allow themselves to rule, the prisoners were not robbed, they were given everything that was supposed to; it turned out that they were supposed to have mattress covers and even sheets, they appeared, and the prisoners slept on the sheets, she-she ... True, true - he was a fair boss! We hated none of the bosses as much as we hated Tarasyuk ” ^[4] .

“The following episode perfectly characterizes the methods of his activity: Tarasyuk ordered to deprive 246 disabled of the camp infirmary of additional rations in favor of prisoners-loggers. In less than a month, all patients deprived of supplementary food died ” ^[5] .

"FROM. A. Tarasyuk, from the point of view of his personal decency, harshly, at times and cruelly put things in order in IvdelLAG, suppressing the atrocities of thieves, not believing in the ideals of goodness, how he could fight the arbitrariness of his subordinates, theft and mismanagement in residential areas and on production facilities. From the same point of view, he consistently dealt with the improvement of camp departments, the construction of residential premises for prisoners, baths, hospitals, schools, clubs and libraries, strictly demanding from prisoners only good work and compliance with internal regulations. During the years of leadership of S. A. Tarasyuk IvdelLAG, not a single case of mass escape or unrest among convicts is known. There are no known cases of the use of firearms against prisoners, except in the pursuit of the convoy squad in the taiga for individual runaways. Vera Ivanovna Rybka, one of the construction managers at the Troitsk State District Power Station and an honorary resident of the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Region, in letters to me recalled that she, as distinguished in the construction of a dam and rafting gateway with a “primitive but significant” hydroelectric generator (according to the doctor of the camp department “ Marina “2nd Sabyaninsky OLP V.F. Gelshert) on the Northern Talitsa River, S. A. Tarasyuk noted with an honorary diploma and took it among his team of convicted engineers in September 1941 for the construction of the Lobvinsky hydrolysis plant and, having achieved early release for V.I. Rybka. According to Vera Ivanovna, Tarasyuk always behaved with political convicts correctly, politely, addressing them exclusively to “you”, but he was a tough and extremely demanding leader, quick and both to encourage and punish until the trial. Vera Ignatyevna Svoboda, convicted under article 58 and working under Tarasyuk as a planner of the Yurtishche camp division, told me that S. A. Tarasyuk completely did not pay attention to denunciations and reporting operatives about the personal relations of the prisoners and their minor misconducts, however, all with regard to production plans, industrial construction and the development of agricultural production (including the greenhouse cultivation of garden and vegetable crops new to the North), he was extremely concerned and any incident threatened with a hearing with him by personal participation. August Koenig, an agronomist at the greenhouse facilities of the Samskiy OLP, recalled that when seedlings of rare apple varieties froze, Tarasyuk personally ordered the guilty to be felled in the Laksia OLP penalty box. Upon learning that among the female prisoners of the Samsky OLP there was a niece of the writer Alexei Tolstoy, Tarasyuk ordered her to be transferred to Ivdel to some administrative and economic position, adding: “if you can’t cope, send him back to the zone”. Having met in the IvdelLAG his former colleague for the 13th Army of the Southern Front, Ivan Alekseevich Nochevkin, who was the authorized PWC of the 13th Army in 1920 and held the position of the authorized Procurement Committee at the SNK of the Chernigov Region before his arrest on October 15, 1937, Sergey Artemyevich he didn’t accept his fate, saying that “Nochevkin is a bad specialist, and he will steal from old memory.” But the former director of the Gorsky Pedagogical Institute and the Deputy People's Commissar of Education of the Gorsky Republic, Professor Boris Andreevich Alborov, continued to write articles on Russian and general philology (about 40 works) in Ivdel with the consent of Tarasyuk, combining scientific work with teaching the Russian language at the school for prisoners. And it was not a matter of Tarasyuk’s desire to take care of camp education and enlightenment, but that Professor Alborov, at his request, developed the methodological materials “Using Birch Bark for Writing and Various Handicrafts” and “A Brief Practical Guide for the Preparation of Anti-Zing Coniferous Tincture” . Yudif Borisovna Severnaya, who headed the Moscow Memorial from 1988 until her death, from February 12, 1938 spent her entire ten-year sentence in Ivdellag, working as a point picker at a logging site in the 1st Samsky and 12th Sobyaninsky OLPs (Pristan camp camp) ), and then was enrolled in the propaganda team of the club to them. Dzerzhinsky commandant of the 9th OLP in Ivdel, from where she was freed on January 5, 1947. As the chairman of the Ivdel branch of the Memorial society, I visited Northern Yu. B. several times in her Moscow apartment on ul. Grimau. So Judith Borisovna considered S. A. Tarasyuk to be a terrible anti-Semite, who spoke derogatoryly about her repressed father Boris Samoilovich Yuzefovich (Severny) and his shot Odessa friends: Marshal Iona Yakir, Commander Semyon Uritsky, senior pseudonym Majority Rosemane Sanomesevez (State Sanctuary of the Russian Orthodox Church) Hump) and the 3rd rank State Security Commissioner Semyon Izrailevich Zapadnoy (Kesselman) - calling them “Trotsky's litter”. It seemed to me that in the words of Yu. B. Severny there was more personal resentment at the fear of the camp barracks regime that had not yet been eradicated, and S. A. Tarasyuk at the head of it — the soulless cog of the totalitarian conveyor built by Stalin. When I asked her if her father, who headed the Odessa Cheka and intelligence of the South-Western Front, shot hundreds and thousands of White Guards and bourgeois in the name of it, Judith Borisovna could only assume that all this was done for a bright future, the idea of ​​which was distorted by Mustachioed Tyrant. " ^[6] "

Petrov N.V., Skorkin K.V. Who led the NKVD 1934-1941, Moscow, 1999