Murkin Lev Dmitrievich
2. Letter from L.D. Murkin. [after February 1956] to the writer P. P. Vershigora about the need for a book about Rudnev S.V. - one of the leaders of the partisan movement in Ukraine, major general. (3 sheets, typewritten copy)
3. Fragment of the diary entry of Murkin L.D. dated 06.11.1958 with memories of an episode of his imprisonment in October 1939. (2 sheets, typewritten copy)
4. Autobiography of L.D., written on 10.05.1983. (4 sheets, typescript)
5. Certificate of the Petrograd district military commissariat of Leningrad No. 3/115 dated 06/11/1984, issued to retired colonel Murkin L.D. about his participation in the civil war since 1918. to 1920 (2 sheets, typewritten copy)
6. Cover of the book “Lev Murkin. The Fate of the Commissar: An Ordinary Biography in an Extraordinary Time” with a photograph by L.D. Murkin, title page and table of contents, 2010. (3 sheets, photocopy)
Names (1)
Murkin Lev Dmitrievich
Born on November 25, 1901 in St. Petersburg. In 1911-1916 he studied at the 2nd gymnasium named after. Alexander I. From April 1917 in Nizhnedneprovsk (Ukraine), then in Yekaterinoslav. Member of the RCP(b) since September 1918. Participant in the partisan movement and the Civil War in Ukraine. From June 1919 - political commissar of the 1st Novospassky Regiment of the 58th Infantry Division. Since 1922 - in Petrograd, at the disposal of the beginning. political department of the Higher Artillery School of the Command Staff of the Red Army in Detskoe Selo. In 1927 he graduated from the Military-Political Academy. N.G. Tolmacheva (VPAT), military commissar. Sent to Mogilev as head of the propaganda and organizational department of the 33rd Infantry Division of the Belarusian Military District. From 1929 in Moscow, teacher at courses for the political personnel of the Red Army, then Art. Inspector PURKKA. From 1933 in the political department of the Saratov Armored School. Since 1936 in Leningrad, head of the political department of the Leningrad Tank Technical School. Arrested on June 27, 1938, he was under investigation as a “participant in a military conspiracy.” Released “due to lack of evidence of a crime” on January 17, 1940. Reinstated in the CPSU(b) in February 1940. Arrested 05/05/1940. Sentenced on 10/05/1940 by a special meeting of the NKVD of the USSR to the 8th year of ITL ("participant in a military conspiracy") with the right to correspond with his mother. From December 1940 - in Ukhtizhemlag, on general work. Released on June 27, 1946, from the end of 1946 he worked as a planner for the 48th motorcade in Luga. Arrested on December 18, 1948 in Leningrad. Sentenced by the decision of a Special Meeting at the USSR Ministry of State Security on April 13, 1949 to eternal exile in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. From July 1949 - in the Udereysky district of KK, then - in the city of Udereysk, in the village. Motygino, worked as a convoy dispatcher. In May 1955 he returned to Leningrad. Initially rehabilitated in November 1955 by the LVO Tribunal (“due to unproven charges”), he was reinstated in the party. In November 1957 he was completely rehabilitated. He died on November 28, 1986 in Leningrad.
Documents (5)
2. Letter from Murkin L.D. [after February 1956] to the writer P. P. Vershigora about the need for a book about S.V. Rudnev. - one of the leaders of the partisan movement in Ukraine, major general.
3. Fragment of a diary entry by Murkin L.D. dated 11/06/1958 with memories of an episode of his imprisonment in October 1939.
4. Autobiography of L.D., written on May 10, 1983.
5. Certificate of the Petrograd district military registration and enlistment office of Leningrad No. 3/115 dated June 11, 1984, issued to retired colonel L.D. Murkin. about his participation in the civil war since 1918. to 1920
