Aleksandr Twieritinow

Aleksandr Aleksandrowicz Twieritinov, Russian Александр Александрович Тверитинов (born July 9, 1897, died 27 May 1942 in the USSR) is an emigre Russian political-trade activist.

He studied medicine at the Moscow University, but after the outbreak of World War I he was mobilized to the Russian army. He graduated from the pre-war school in Moscow. Served in the Caucasian Corps on the South-Western Front. In 1919 he joined the Bolshevik army. He fought on the Finnish Front, where he was captured. He was put in a POW camp in Poland. After his release in 1924, he left for France. From 1925 he lived in Paris, where he performed various works. In the years 1929-1937 he worked as a cab driver. At the same time he studied at the School of Social and Political Sciences until 1931. He served in the Republican-Democratic Alliance, as part of the leadership. In 1934 he became a member of the Russian Workers' Union at the French CGT headquarters. He wrote articles for the magazine "Russkij szofior". From the mid. In the 1930s he was active in the Union of Friends of the Soviet Homeland. In 1937 he became the secretary. During this time he became involved in the activities of the Spanish Aid Committee, which supported the recruitment of the International Brigades. In the summer of 1939 the French authorities were deported to the USSR. In April 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD. After the trial, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison. He died in one of the Soviet labor camps.

Biography of Alexander A. Twieritinova (Russian)

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