Chervyakov, Alexander Ivanovich (revolutionary)

Born in the city of Lugansk . Already at the gymnasium age, he witnessed the turbulent events of the First Russian Revolution . Therefore, after entering the Military Medical Academy ( St. Petersburg ) in 1909 , Chervyakov took an active part in the student movement: he signed a protest at Purishkevich’s speech in the State Duma, and participated in the funeral of Leo Tolstoy. For this he was expelled from the academy. Soon Chervyakov managed to enter the law faculty of Moscow University, after the successful completion of which he worked in his specialty in Lugansk .

In March 1917 he joined the Bolsheviks. Since June, a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Donetsk Proletarian. On behalf of the committee, he led Bolshevik agitation among the recovering soldiers of the local hospital, advocated at the county peasant meeting for "revolutionary unity of workers and peasants." In August he was elected the mayor of Lugansk .

In March 1918 he became People's Commissar of the Interior of the Lugansk Sovnarkom, from April 1, People's Commissar of Justice. From April 9 to May 3, 1918 he was the People's Commissar of Justice of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic .

After the retreat of the Soviet troops to Tsaritsyn , in June 1918 he was personally confirmed by F.E. Dzerzhinsky as chairman of the North Caucasian District Cheka . He took an active direct part in exposing and eliminating the local anti-Bolshevik conspiracy in August-September 1918. In November 1918 he went to Moscow for a meeting of the Cheka, where Lenin made his historical report on the need for an alliance of the working class with the middle peasantry. After the restoration of Soviet power in Ukraine in 1919, Chervyakov returned here, worked as deputy chairman of the All-Ukrainian Cheka and a member of the board of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR .

After the end of the civil war, in 1921 he was sent to party work in Zhytomyr . In 1921, Chervyakov worked for some time in the Commission on the fight against hunger in Zaporozhye . In 1922 he was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, since 1923 - in responsible Soviet work.

Since the beginning of World War II, A. Chervyakov volunteered for the militia of Moscow, participated in battles. Later he was in the service at the rear headquarters of the Red Army, in a separate command of the 3th Shock Army, and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

After the war, in 1947, he switched to teaching, released the monograph “1917 in Lugansk” and defended his dissertation on history.

Alexander Ivanovich Chervyakov died in December 1966 in Moscow. ^[1] .

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Yu. R. Fedorovsky. The first Bolshevik mayor of Lugansk // Our newspaper (Lugansk) 05/18/2010.