Vladimir Tolmachyov (politician)
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Tolmachev (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Толмачёв; October 19, 1887September 20, 1937) was a Soviet politician and statesman.


Biography

Born on October 19, 1887, in Kostroma, in the family of a teacher. In 1904, as a gymnasium student he joined the RSDLP. A member of the Bolshevik wing since 1905 and a member of the Kostroma Committee of the RSDLP. In 1906, he was arrested for revolutionary activities, and sentenced to 5 years under police supervision in the Yarensky district of the Vologda province. After serving his term, he lived on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. In 1911, he was drafted into the Imperial Army and spent two years in military service. In 1914, with the outbreak of World War I, he was again drafted into the army and served in
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. In March 1917 he organized and headed the Council of Soldiers' Deputies of the Novorossiysk garrison. After the October Revolution in November 1917 he was appointed head of the military department, and then the military commissar of Novorossiysk. In June 1918 he participated in the sinking of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet that refused to surrender to the Germans under the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. From 1919 he was deputy head of the political department of the 14th Army. From June 28, 1920, he was a member of the
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of Crimea. In the years 1921–1922 he was executive secretary of the Kuban-Black Sea Regional Party Committee. From 1922 to 1924 he was chairman of the executive committee of the Kuban-Black Sea Regional Council. From July 1924 – deputy chairman of the executive committee of the North Caucasus Regional Council. Appointed People's Commissar for Interior on January 2, 1928, succeeding A.G. Beloborodov, until the abolition of that office on February 10, 1931. After January 1931, he became the head of the Main Road Transport Administration under the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR and a member of the economic council. On November 25, 1932, V.N. Tolmachev, together with N.B. Eismont, was accused of participating in a " right-opportunist anti-party counter-revolutionary group". He was expelled from the CPSU and arrested. On January 16, 1933, by a decision of the Special Meeting of the
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of the USSR, he was sentenced under Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the USSR to 3 years in a forced labor camp. After serving his sentence, in 1935, he returned to Kostroma, where he was appointed head of the coastal development of the fuel office. On March 30, 1937, was arrested on suspicion of participating in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization. Tried by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on September 20, 1937, Tolmachev sentenced to death, and executed on the same day. By the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of August 23, 1962, he was posthumously rehabilitated and reinstated in the party.


See also

* Толмачёв, Владимир Николаевич


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* 1887 births 1937 deaths People from Kostroma People from Kostromskoy Uyezd Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Old Bolsheviks Right Opposition People's commissars and ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People of the Russian Revolution People of the Russian Civil War Great Purge victims from Russia Soviet rehabilitations {{USSR-politician-stub