Piotr Tiurkin

Piotr Andriejewicz Tiurkin (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Тюркин, born in 1897 in Nikolayevsk, Samaritan Governorate, died May 2, 1950 in Butyrki, Moscow) - Soviet state and party activist, Major General. Curriculum vitae In 1918 he became a member of the RKP (b), 1918-1919 studied at the Saratov Industrial Economics Institute, 1920-1926 was an instructor, manager of the sector and head of the national education department in Saratov, and 1926-1929 head of the Chief Education Board of the Socialist People's Commissar Education RFSRR. From November 1931 to February 1933 he was the editor of the newspaper "Gorkowskaja Kommun", and from March 1933 to June 1935 he was the director of the Gorkowski Institute of Industrial. From June 1935 to June 1936 he was the director of the Leningrad Industrial Institute, later working in the Leningrad Oblast National Education Branch, until September 2, 1937, he was deputy chairman, and from September 2 to October 26, 1937, the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad Regional Council. From October 1937 to February 28, 1940, he was the RFSRR's National Education Commissioner, from March to June 1940, the director of the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Economics. From June 1940 to September 1941, Director of the Leningrad Industrial / Technical Institute. Kalinin, and 1942-1943 a member of the Army Council of the 67th Army of the Leningrad Front. Later he was the head of the Political Board of the Leningrad Front at the level of the Major General (he received this degree on December 6, 1942), deputy chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council and until 1949 director of the Institute of History of the Party at the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party (bK). He was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner. November 19, 1949 was arrested in connection with the "Leningrad case", died in the prison of Butyrka during the investigation. Bibliography

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