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1. Organize the Solovetsky special-purpose forced labor camp and two transit and distribution points in Arkhangelsk and Kemi.
2. Organization and management specified in Art. I will be entrusted with the camp and transit and distribution points to the OGPU.
3. All lands, buildings, living and dead equipment that previously belonged to the former Solovetsky Monastery, as well as the Pertominsky camp and the Arkhangelsk transit and distribution point, should be transferred free of charge to the OGPU.
4. At the same time, transfer the radio station located on the Solovetsky Islands to the OGPU for use.
5. Oblige the OGPU to immediately begin organizing the labor of prisoners for the use of agricultural, fishing, forestry and other industries and enterprises, exempting them from paying state and local taxes and fees.

Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Rykov
SNK Business Manager Gorbunov
Secretary Fotieva

Right:
Secretary of the special department of the OGPU I. Filippov

The copy from the copy is correct:
Secretary of the Management of Social Camps of the ON OGPU Vaskov

List of names of members of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR who adopted the Resolution "On the organization of the Solovetsky forced labor camp"

Bogdanov Peter | Bryukhanov Nikolay | Dzerzhinsky Felix | Dovgalevsky Valerian | Kamenev Lev (Rosenfeld) | Krasin Leonid | Krestinsky Nikolay | Kursky Dmitry | Lenin Vladimir | Lunacharsky Anatoly | Orakhelashvili Mamiya | Rykov Alexey | Semashko Nikolay | Sokolnikov Grigory (Brilliant Girsh) | Stalin (Dzhugashvili) Joseph | Trotsky (Bronstein) Lev | Tsyurupa Alexander | Chicherin Georgy | Chubar Vlas | Yakovenko Vasily

Not being “people’s” commissars, two more comrades had a hand in preparing the documents and decisions:

And finally, the document’s fidelity to the Resolution (or the correctness of the Resolution in the document?) was confirmed by comrades from the “authorities”:

Fillipov I. | Rodion Vaskov

"People's" commissars at the time of the creation of SLON:
half of them will die from the bullets of their “comrades-in-arms”

"Do not be afraid of enemies - in the worst case, they can kill you. Do not be afraid of friends - in the worst case, they can betray you. Fear the indifferent - they do not kill or betray, but only with their tacit consent do they exist in the land of betrayal and murder." ( Yasensky Bruno)

Beloborodov Alexander Georgievich(1891 –1938) - Regicide, signed the decision to execute the royal family. Replaced Dzerzhinsky as People's Commissar of VnuDel of the RSFSR (08/30/1923). Under him, the Directorate of Northern Camps was located on Solovki. Shot.

Bogdanov Peter(1882-1939) - Soviet statesman, engineer. Member of the RSDLP since 1905. In 1917, before. Gomel Revolutionary Committee. Member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1927-30. Member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Central Executive Committee of the USSR. Arrested in 1937. Shot.

Bryukhanov Nikolay(1878 - 1938) - Soviet statesman. People's Commissar of Food of the USSR (1923-1924), Deputy People's Commissar of Finance of the USSR (1924-1926), People's Commissar of Finance of the USSR (1926-1930). Arrested on February 3, 1938. Shot.

Dzerzhinsky Felix(1877 - 1926) - Soviet statesman. Polish nobleman. The head of a number of people's commissariats, the founder of the Cheka, one of the organizers of the "Red Terror", who believed that "the Cheka must defend the revolution, even if its sword accidentally falls on the heads of the innocent."

Dovgalevsky Valerian(1885 - 1934) - Soviet statesman, diplomat. Member of the Communist Party since 1908, electrical engineer. From 1921 People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR, in 1923 Deputy People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR. He was a member of the USSR Central Executive Committee. Died. He was buried near the Kremlin wall.

Kamenev (Rosenfeld) Lev(1883 - 1936) From an educated Russian-Jewish family, the son of a machinist. On September 14, 1922, he was appointed deputy. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (V. Lenin) of the RSFSR. In 1922, it was he who proposed appointing Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b). Convicted in 1936. Shot.

Krasin Leonid(1870 - 1926) He is also Nikitich, Horse, Yuhanson, Winter, Kurgan. Soviet statesman. Born into the family of a minor official. In 1923 he became the first People's Commissar of Foreign Trade of the USSR. Died in London. He was buried near the Kremlin wall.

Krestinsky (?) Nikolai(1883-1938), party member since 1903. From the nobility, son of a gymnasium teacher. Since 1918, People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR. In May 1937 he was arrested. The only one refused to admit guilt: “I also did not commit any of the crimes that are charged to me personally.” Sentenced and executed in 1938.

Kursky Dmitry(1874 - 1932), People's Commissar of Justice of the RSFSR, first prosecutor of the RSFSR. Born into the family of a railway engineer. In 1918, he was a member of the commission on organizing intelligence agencies in Soviet Russia (together with Dzerzhinsky and Stalin). Member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (1921) and the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (1923). Committed suicide (1932).

Lenin Vladimir(1870 - 1924), Soviet politician and statesman, revolutionary, founder of the Bolshevik Party, one of the organizers and leaders of the October Rebellion of 1917, chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (government) of the RSFSR and the USSR. Chief organizer of Elephant.

Lunacharsky Anatoly(1875 - 1933), - Soviet writer, politician, translator, publicist, critic, art critic. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1930), People's Commissar of Education (1917-1929). Died in France. He was buried near the Kremlin wall.

Orakhelashvili Mamia (Ivan)(1881 - 1937) - Soviet party leader. Born into a noble family. He studied at the medical faculty of Kharkov University. From July 6, 1923 to May 21, 1925 - Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. In April 1937 he was deported to Astrakhan. In 1937 he was arrested and executed.

Rykov Alexey(1875 - 1938), party member since 1898. Born in Saratov. Since 1921, deputy Pred. SNK and STO of the RSFSR, in 1923-1924. - USSR and RSFSR. Signed the decree on the creation of SLON. Expelled from the party (1937) and arrested. Shot on March 15, 1938.

Semashko Nikolay(1874 - 1949) - Soviet party and statesman. Nephew of the revolutionary G. Plekhanov. In Switzerland he met Lenin (1906). Since 1918 People's Commissar of Health of the RSFSR. Professor, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR (1945). He died a natural death.

Sokolnikov Grigory (Brilliant Hirsch)(1888 - 1939) - Soviet state. activist Member and can. member of the Politburo (1917, 1924-1925). People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR (1922) and the USSR (1923-1926). Arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison (1937). According to the official version, he was killed by prisoners in the Verkhneuralsk political isolation ward (1939). Shot on July 29, 1937, the corpse was burned. The ashes were thrown into a pit at the Donskoy Monastery cemetery in Moscow.

All these comrades are commissars of the Council of People's Commissars, members of the government - the same Leninist government that launched the state mechanism of terror with the first stop at Solovki, in SLON. All these “comrades” are directly involved in the adoption of the Resolution. Active position or criminal connivance. Question for the Court: what was each of them doing on November 2, 1923?

However, this list strongly diverges from official data on the composition of the first Council of People's Commissars. Firstly, writes Russian historian Yuri Emelyanov in his work “Trotsky. Myths and Personality,” it includes people’s commissars from various compositions of the Council of People’s Commissars, which have changed many times. Secondly, according to Emelyanov, Dikiy mentions a number of people’s commissariats that never existed at all! For example, on cults, on elections, on refugees, on hygiene... But the actually existing People's Commissariats of Railways, Posts and Telegraphs are not included in the Wild's list at all!
Further: Dikiy claims that the first Council of People's Commissars included 20 people, although it is known that there were only 15 of them.
A number of positions are listed inaccurately. Thus, Chairman of the Petrosovet G.E. Zinoviev never actually held the post of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. Proshyan, whom Dikiy for some reason calls “Protian,” was the People’s Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs, not of Agriculture.
Several of the mentioned “members of the Council of People’s Commissars” were never members of the government. I.A. Spitsberg was an investigator of the VIII liquidation department of the People's Commissariat of Justice. It is generally unclear who is meant by Lilina-Knigissen: either the actress M.P. Lilina, or Z.I. Lilina (Bernstein), who worked as head of the public education department of the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet. Cadet A.A. Kaufman participated as an expert in the development of land reform, but also had nothing to do with the Council of People's Commissars. The name of the People's Commissar of Justice was not Steinberg at all, but Steinberg...

However, this list strongly diverges from official data on the composition of the first Council of People's Commissars. Firstly, writes Russian historian Yuri Emelyanov in his work “Trotsky. Myths and Personality,” it includes people’s commissars from various compositions of the Council of People’s Commissars, which have changed many times. Secondly, according to Emelyanov, Dikiy mentions a number of people’s commissariats that never existed at all! For example, on cults, on elections, on refugees, on hygiene... But the actually existing People's Commissariats of Railways, Posts and Telegraphs are not included in the Wild's list at all!
Further: Dikiy claims that the first Council of People's Commissars included 20 people, although it is known that there were only 15 of them.
A number of positions are listed inaccurately. Thus, Chairman of the Petrosovet G.E. Zinoviev never actually held the post of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. Proshyan, whom Dikiy for some reason calls “Protian,” was the People’s Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs, not of Agriculture.
Several of the mentioned “members of the Council of People’s Commissars” were never members of the government. I.A. Spitsberg was an investigator of the VIII liquidation department of the People's Commissariat of Justice. It is generally unclear who is meant by Lilina-Knigissen: either the actress M.P. Lilina, or Z.I. Lilina (Bernstein), who worked as head of the public education department of the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet. Cadet A.A. Kaufman participated as an expert in the development of land reform, but also had nothing to do with the Council of People's Commissars. The name of the People's Commissar of Justice was not Steinberg at all, but Steinberg...

All rulers of Russia Mikhail Ivanovich Vostryshev

CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN (1870–1924)

CHAIRMAN

COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS

VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN

Volodya Ulyanov was born on April 10/22, 1870 in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) in the family of a public school inspector.

Volodya's paternal grandfather Nikolai Vasilyevich Ulyanov, the son of a serf (there is no information about his nationality, presumably Russian or Chuvash), married late to the daughter of a baptized Kalmyk, Anna Alekseevna Smirnova. Son Ilya was born when his mother was 43 years old, and his father was over 60 years old. Soon Nikolai Vasilyevich died, Ilya was raised and trained by his elder brother Vasily, a clerk in the Astrakhan company “Brothers Sapozhnikov”.

Lenin's maternal grandfather Alexander Dmitrievich - Srul (Israel) Moishevich - Blank - a baptized Jew, a doctor, whose considerable fortune increased significantly after his marriage to the German Anna Grigorievna Grosskopf (the Grosskopf family also had Swedish roots). Lenin's early orphaned mother, Maria Alexandrovna, like her four sisters, was raised by her maternal aunt, who taught her nieces music and foreign languages.

In the Ulyanov family, through the efforts of Maria Alexandrovna, a special reverence for German order and accuracy was maintained. The children spoke foreign languages ​​(Lenin was fluent in German, read and spoke French, but knew English less well).

Volodya was a lively, lively and cheerful boy, he loved noisy games. He didn't play with toys so much as break them. At the age of five he learned to read, then he was prepared by the parish teacher of Simbirsk for the gymnasium, where he entered first grade in 1879.

“When he was still a child, he was taken to one of the best Russian ophthalmologists, who was then making waves throughout the Volga region, Kazan professor Adamyuk (senior),” recalled doctor M.I. Averbakh. – Without obviously having the opportunity to accurately examine the boy and seeing objectively at the bottom of his left eye some changes, mainly of a congenital nature (congenital optic fissure and posterior cone), Professor Adamyuk mistook this eye for poor vision from birth (the so-called congenital amblyopia). Indeed, this eye saw very poorly into the distance. The child's mother was told that the left eye was no good from birth and that such grief could not be helped. Thus, Vladimir Ilyich lived his whole life with the thought that he could not see anything with his left eye and existed only with his right one.”

Volodya Ulyanov was the first student at the gymnasium, which he entered in 1879. The director of the gymnasium, F.M. Kerensky, the father of the head of the 1917 Provisional Government, Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky, highly appreciated the abilities of Vladimir Ulyanov. The gymnasium gave Lenin a solid foundation of knowledge. The exact sciences were not of interest to him, but history, and later philosophy, Marxism, political economy, and statistics became the disciplines on which he read mountains of books and wrote dozens of volumes of essays.

His older brother A.I. Ulyanov was executed in 1887 for his participation in the assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III. In 1887, Vladimir Ulyanov entered the law faculty of Kazan University; in December he was expelled from the university and expelled from the city for participating in the student movement. He was exiled to his mother's estate Kokushkino, where he read a lot, especially political literature.

In 1891, he passed the exams as an external student for the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University, after which he served as an assistant attorney in Samara. But Vladimir Ilyich did not prove himself as a lawyer and already in 1893, leaving jurisprudence, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he joined the Marxist student circle of the Technological Institute.

In 1894, one of Lenin’s first works appeared, “What are “friends of the people” and how do they fight against the Social Democrats,” which argued that the path to socialism lies through the workers’ movement led by the proletariat. In April–May 1895, Lenin’s first meetings took place abroad with members of the “Emancipation of Labor” group, including G.V. Plekhanov.

In 1895, Vladimir Ilyich participated in the creation of the St. Petersburg “Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class”, then was arrested. In 1897, he was exiled for three years to the village of Shushenskoye, Yenisei province.

The conditions of exile in Shushenskoye were quite acceptable. Favorable climate, hunting, fishing, simple food - all this strengthened Lenin's health. In July 1898, he married N.K. Krupskaya, also exiled to Siberia. She was the daughter of an officer, a student of the Bestuzhev courses, who at one time corresponded with L.N. Tolstoy. Krupskaya became Lenin's assistant and like-minded person for the rest of his life.

In 1900, Lenin went abroad, where he stayed until 1917, with a break in 1905–1907. Together with Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov and others, he began publishing the newspaper Iskra. At the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903, Lenin led the Bolshevik Party. Since 1905 in St. Petersburg, since December 1907 - again in exile.

At the end of August 1914, Lenin moved from Austria-Hungary to neutral Switzerland, where he put forward the slogan of defeating the Russian government and turning the imperialist war into a civil war. Lenin's position led him to isolation even in the social democratic environment. The leader of the Bolsheviks, apparently, did not consider the possible occupation of Russia by Germany as an evil.

In April 1917, having arrived in Petrograd, Lenin set out a course for the victory of the socialist revolution. After the July crisis of 1917, he was in an illegal position. He headed the leadership of the October Uprising in Petrograd.

At the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets, Vladimir Ilyich was elected chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK), the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense (since 1919 - STO). Member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) and the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the USSR. From March 1918 he lived in Moscow. Played a decisive role in the conclusion of the Brest Peace. On August 30, 1918, he was seriously wounded during an attempt on his life.

In 1918, Lenin approved the creation of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, which widely and uncontrollably used methods of violence and repression. He also introduced war communism in the country - on November 21, 1918, he signed the decree of the Council of People's Commissars “On organizing the supply of the population with all products and items for personal consumption and household use.” Trade was prohibited, commodity-money relations were replaced by natural exchange, and surplus appropriation was introduced. Cities began to die out. However, Lenin's next step was the nationalization of industry. As a result of this grandiose experiment, industrial production in Russia virtually ceased.

In 1921, an unprecedented famine broke out in the Volga region. It was decided to partially resolve this problem by looting Orthodox churches, which, naturally, the parishioners resisted. Lenin took advantage of this to deal a decisive blow to the Russian Orthodox Church. On March 19, he wrote a secret letter to members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) about using resistance on the part of believers to the forcible confiscation of church valuables as a reason for mass executions of clergy, which was carried out.

The economic situation in the country was rapidly deteriorating. At the Tenth Party Congress in March 1921, Lenin put forward a program of “new economic policy.” He understood that with the introduction of NEP, the “right” elements in the party would be revived, and at the same 10th Congress he eliminated the residual elements of democracy in the RCP (b), prohibiting the creation of factions.

The NEP in the economic field immediately gave positive results, and the process of rapid restoration of the national economy began.

In 1922, Lenin became seriously ill (syphilis of the brain) and since December of that year did not participate in political activities.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin. Artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. 1934

On January 27, from 10 a.m., troops and delegations of workers and peasants walked along Moscow’s Red Square past the coffin with Lenin’s body installed on a special pedestal. One of the banners read: “Lenin’s grave is the cradle of freedom for all mankind.” At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the troops took up arms “on guard”; Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Molotov, Bukharin, Rudzutak, Tomsky and Dzerzhinsky lifted the coffin and carried it to the mausoleum...

Muscovite Nikita Okunev writes in his diary: “By the time he was lowered into the grave, an order was given for all of Russia at 4 o’clock in the afternoon to stop all traffic (railroad, horse, steamship), and in factories and factories to sound whistles or horns for five minutes (at movement was also terminated during the same period). Afterwards, in a series of different anecdotes written about this unprecedented funeral, there was this: when Lenin lived, he was applauded, and when he died, all of Russia whistled without a break for 5 minutes... In the future, monuments to Lenin will probably be erected not only in cities, but also in every village."

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Smolny. Artist Isaac Brodsky. 1930

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Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR

Stalin (Dzhugashvili) Joseph Vissarionovich

1922-1953 Secretary General

(Ulyanov Vladimir Ilyich)

1923-1924 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

Kalinin Mikhail Ivanovich 1922-1936 Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR

1936-1946 Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Rykov Alexey Ivanovich 1924-1930

Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich 1930-1941

Stalin I.V.

1941-1946 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

1946-1953 Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR

Shvernik Nikolai Mikhailovich 1946-1953

Khrushchev Nikita Sergeevich

1953-1964 First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee

Malenkov Georgy Maximilianovich

Voroshilov Kliment Efremovich

Leaders of the RCP(b) - CPSU(b) - CPSU

Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) and the Council of Ministers (CM) of the USSR

Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR

and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Bulganin Nikolai Alexandrovich 1955-1958

Khrushchev N. S. 1958-1964

Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich 1960-1964

Brezhnev L. I. 1964-1966 First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, 1966-1982 General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee

Kosygin Alexey Nikolaevich 1964-1980

Mikoyan Anastas Ivanovich 1964-1965

Podgorny Nikolay Viktorovich 1965-1977

Tikhonov Nikolay Alexandrovich 1980-1985

Brezhnev L. I. 1977-1982

Andropov Yu. V. 1982-1984

Andropov Yu. V. 1983-1984

Chernenko Konstantin Ustinovich 1984-1985

Chernenko K. U. 1984-1985

Leaders of the RCP(b) - CPSU(b) - CPSU

Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) and the Council of Ministers (CM) of the USSR

Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR

and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich (1985-1991)

Ryzhkov Nikolai Ivanovich (1985-1991)

Gromyko A. A, 1985-1988

Gorbachev M, S. 1988-1990

Pavlov Valentin Sergeevich 1991

Prime Minister of the USSR

Lukyanov A. I.

1991 Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

The CPSU was banned in November 1991.

The collapse of the USSR occurred in December 1991.