Rafail Romanovich Petrushansky ( August 15 [27], 1895 , Melitopol , Taurida , Russian Empire - September 2, 1937 ) - Ukrainian Soviet statesman, chairman of the Kiev city council in 1934 - 1937 . A candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) in 1934-1937. The victim of Stalin's terror .
| Rafail Romanovich Petrushansky | |
|---|---|
| Birth | |
| Death | |
| The consignment | |
Biography
Born in 1895 in Melitopol in the family of a cabman. His father, Rakhmil Petrushansky, died in Melitopol in July 1921. He started to work at the age of 13. In 1910-1914 he was a clerk in coal warehouses in Melitopol and Fedorovka, he worked for about a year at the Zaferman plant. In 1915, after the beginning of the First World War , he was drafted into the army, participated in battles on the Austrian front as part of the 75th Sevastopol regiment (1915-1917). He was wounded, awarded the St. George medal "For Courage". After the second wound until May 1918 he served in a military road detachment.
Member of the CP (b) U since 1919 . In 1924 he was chairman of the builders union.
Since May 1926 , he is a member of the presidium of the Kiev Okrug Executive Committee, the chairman of the labor department [1] . In 1927 - 1928 he was in charge of the commodity exchange.
After graduating from the Kiev Construction Institute in 1932 , he worked as a mine manager in the construction of the Moscow Metro . From August to December 1933 - Deputy Chairman of the Kharkiv City Council and Head of the Kharkov Commune.
Since March 1934 , after the transfer of the capital of the Ukrainian SSR to Kiev - Chairman of the Kiev City Council . He was a delegate to the XII Congress of the CP (B) U. In February 1937 he headed the Ukrstroygorprom.
He was arrested in July 1937 for participation in the " counter-revolutionary Trotskyist organization ", and was shot dead on September 2, 1937 .
Rehabilitated in 1956 for lack of corpus delicti.
Notes
- ↑ In Kiev. The first meeting of the new District Executive Committee // Proletarian Truth . - 1926. - No. 108 (1408). - May 14. - p. 4.
Sources
- Kiev. Historical Encyclopedia. 1917-2000
- Karamash S. Yu. Heads of Kiev // Separation and we. - 2001. No. 4-5 (41-42). - pp. 18-31.
- Saliy I. N. The face of the capital in the fate of its leaders / Ivan Saliy; [ed. W. Kovalinsky ]. - Template: E. : Trust, 2008. - pp. 55 , 56 , 57 . - ISBN 978-966-507-226-3 .
- Kumok V.N., Volovnik S.V. Jews of Melitopol. - T. 1. - Melitopol: MGT Publishing House LLC, 2012. - p. 717. - ISBN 978-966-197-167-6 .