Kosenko, Konstantin Andreevich

Konstantin Andreevich was born in the Belgorod region in the family of a poor tradesman. In his youth he moved to Rostov-on-Don , where he worked at various enterprises. In Rostov, Kosenko joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (a faction of internationalist Mensheviks ). There he married a Cossack with whom he had five sons and a daughter. During the First World War, the party’s committee was sent to Yuzovka (now Donetsk ) ^[1]

On March 4, 1917, elections were held to the Council of Workers' Deputies of Yuzovka, in which the overwhelming majority of the mandates were received by the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries , and Konstantin Kosenko was elected chairman of the city council. He remained in this position for eight months until mid-November 1917. Under Kosenko’s chairmanship, the first juzovskie newspapers began to appear, including the Donetsk thought, published by the Social Democrats. In June 1917, Yuzovka received the status of a city ^[2] , after which elections were held for the public Duma, whose executive body was Yuzovskaya City Government. Semen Lvovich Yiteh was elected the mayor . Kosenko became a companion ^{[3] of the} mayor ^[2] . In November 1917, the Bolshevik Yakov Vasilievich Zalmaev became the new head of the Council of Workers' Deputies of Yuzovka ^[1] .

On March 15, 1921, Kosenko was killed by rebels of the Makhnovist movement of Yakov Moskalevsky in the village of Aleksandrinka, Styly District ^[1] .

One of the sons, Sergei Konstantinovich Kosenko in the 1970s, served as Minister of Construction and Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR, another son, Gennady Konstantinovich Kosenko, was Deputy Chairman of the Stalin City Council, the third son, Konstantin Konstantinovich Kosenko, worked as Assistant to the First Secretary of the Stalin Regional Committee of the Party before the beginning of the Great World war II , the fourth - Nikolai Konstaninovich Kosenko worked as head of the North-caucasian railway , the fifth, the most senior - went missing during the Great Patriotic second war ^[1] .

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