Leonid Petrovich Serebryakov ( May 30 (June 11) 1888 , Samara - February 1, 1937 , Moscow ) - Soviet party and statesman.
| Leonid Petrovich Serebryakov | |
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| Date of Birth | May 30 ( June 11 ) 1888 |
| Place of Birth | Samara |
| Date of death | February 1, 1937 (48 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR |
| Occupation | revolutionary, politician, business manager |
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Biography
Born in Samara in a working class family. He studied at the elementary city school. He worked at a brewery ( Ufa ), then a turner at a metal plant ( Lugansk ). Member of the RSDLP (b) since 1905 . Member of the revolutionary events of 1905-1906 in Lugansk, member of the committee of the RSDLP. He led party work in the Donbass , Baku, Nikolaev, Odessa, Moscow, Samara, Petrograd, Tomsk.
The delegate of the VI (Prague) conference of the RSDLP (1912). Repeatedly arrested. In January 1917 he was drafted into the army, served in a reserve regiment in Kostroma. In February 1917, the regiment was withdrawn from the barracks in support of the revolution, one of the organizers of the Kostroma Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies.
Since the summer of 1917, member and secretary of the Moscow Party Committee, member of the Presidium of the Moscow Soviet . In 1919 - 1920 - Secretary of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and at the same time a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front (July 16, 1919 - January 10, 1920).
Member of the Central Committee of the RCP (B) (1919-1921), member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (B) (March - November 1919). He was the head of the Political Administration of the Red Army . From April 5, 1920 to March 8, 1921 - Secretary and member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (B.) .
Chairman of the General Committee for the Compulsory Labor Service. Since 1921 he worked in the NKPS of the RSFSR ( USSR ): Commissioner of the Main Directorate, Deputy People's Commissar ( 1922 - 1924 ), since 1929 a member of the board.
He was one of the leaders of the Left Opposition , signed all its basic documents, starting with the “Declaration of 46”, for which in December 1927 , at the XV Congress of the CPSU (B.) , Among 75 “active figures of the Trotskyist opposition” he was expelled from the party [1] and at the beginning of 1928, under the “counter-revolutionary” 58th article of the Criminal Code, he was exiled to Semipalatinsk . After submitting an application for withdrawal from the opposition in 1929 he was returned to Moscow, and in January 1930 he was reinstated in the party [2] .
His daughter Zorya testified to his attitude towards Trotsky: “he treated with amazing, not only respect, respect, but also some warmth and love, purely human ... for him Trotsky was a great authority” [3] .
Since 1931, he was the head of the Central Administration of Highways and Road Transport under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR , and from August 3, 1935, he was the first deputy head of this department.
In August 1936 he was again expelled from the CPSU (b). On August 17, 1936, he was arrested and in January 1937, as one of the main defendants, he was taken to the Second Moscow trial - in the case of the so-called “parallel anti-Soviet Trotskyist center”. On January 30, 1937, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced to be shot, shot on February 1, 1937.
It was rehabilitated by the resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR on December 4, 1986, on June 10, 1987. The CPC under the Central Committee of the CPSU was reinstated in the party.
Family
- Wife: Galina Iosifovna Serebryakova (nee Bull-Beck) (1905-1980), writer, marriage broke up in the mid-1920s, later married G. Ya. Sokolnikov .
- Daughter: Zorya Leonidovna Serebryakova (born 1923), Doctor of Historical Sciences.