Minkin, Alexander Eremeevich

Born in Krichev, Mogilev province , in a poor large family of a Jewish artisan ^[1] . My father died before his birth and was sent to serve in a convenience store for two years for 10 rubles a year. Then he worked in a printing house.

Member of the RSDLP since 1903 . Since October 1903, he was twice arrested and sentenced to administrative expulsion. He conducted revolutionary activities in Tyumen and Perm, then moved to an illegal position. In February or March 1905, he was sent to work in Yekaterinburg, where he was known under the name Matvey; was the organizer of one of the districts of the city, was a member of the fighting squad. In 1906, he got a job as a typesetter in a local printing house in Zlatoust, and printed revolutionary propaganda literature at night. Returning to Yekaterinburg in 1907, he joined the Yekaterinburg City Committee.

In August 1907 he was arrested and brought to trial in the case of the Ural Regional Committee of the RSDLP. According to the court in 1909, he received a link to Siberia for eternal settlement. He served a link in the village of Antsiferov in the Yenisei province, but soon fled through Vladivostok to the USA. Together with the Russian Social Democrats, he organized the Russian Federation under the American Socialist Party. Since 1912 he lived in New York and worked at the printing house of the Russian social democratic newspaper New World.

In April 1917 he returned to Russia.

Since 1917 - Chairman of the Petrograd District Committee of the RSDLP (b) ( Petrograd ), Chairman of the Board of the Union of Printers.

• 1918 - Commissioner of the State Securities Procurement Expedition ( Penza ),
• April-July 1918 - Chairman of the Penza Provincial Council,
• July-August 1918 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Penza Provincial Council,
• 1918-1919 - Chairman of the Penza Provincial Committee of the RCP (B.),
• From July to August 1919 - Chairman of the Penza Provincial Committee of the RCP (B),
• 1919 - manager of the Gosznak factory (Perm), secretary of the Perm Provincial Committee of the RCP (b),
• 1920 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Perm Provincial Council,
• 1921 - 1922 - Executive Secretary of the Arkhangelsk Provincial Committee of the RCP (B),

Since 1923 - Member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat of Food of the USSR.

• 1930-1934 - Chairman of Yuzhamtorg ,
• 1934 - 1935 - plenipotentiary representative of the USSR in Uruguay ^[2]
• 1936 - 1938 - Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR,
• 1937 - 1938 - Deputy Head of the Department of Judicial Protection of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the USSR,

Since January 1938 - a member of the Moscow Regional College of Defenders.

January 24, 1939 was arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison. Released in 1946.

In 1946 - 1949 - legal adviser at the Jelgava Sugar Plant (Latvian SSR). In 1949 he was again arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

He died in January 1955 in Kazakhstan, not having lived three weeks before complete rehabilitation.

• The Diplomatic Dictionary, ed. A. A. Gromyko, A. G. Kovalev, P. P. Sevostyanov, S. L. Tikhvinsky in 3 volumes, M., "Science", 1985-1986. - T. 3, p. 619.

• Biography in the Handbook on the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991