Evdokimov Grigory Eremeevich

Genus. in 1884 in the city of Pavlodar, Semipalatinsk region, in the family of a tradesman. Russian. He graduated from the city school and from the age of 15 worked as a sailor on river ships. In 1903 he joined the RSDLP and carried out revolutionary work. He was first arrested in 1908. In 1913 he left for St. Petersburg, where he was again arrested. In 1915, he was arrested and sentenced to administrative deportation to the Verkholensky district of the Irkutsk province, from where he fled.
In 1917 - agitator of the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP (b). Participated in the creation of Red Guard units. He was elected a member of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly. In 1918-1919 - participant in the establishment of Soviet power in the North-West of Russia, commissar of industry of the Union of Communes of the Northern Region. During the Civil War he took part in the defense of Petrograd. From August 25, 1920 to May 10, 1921 - head of the Political Department and member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 7th Army of the Western Front.
From 1922 to 1925 - Chairman of the Petrograd Council of Trade Unions. In 1923-1925. - Deputy Chairman of the Petrograd Council and the Economic Conference of G. E. Zinoviev. By the Decree of the USSR Central Executive Committee of May 21, 1925 “On the formation of the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee”, he was included in the Presidium.
From September 1925 to January 8, 1926 - first (responsible) secretary of the Leningrad Provincial Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Being one of the closest associates of G. E. Zinoviev, G. E. Evdokimov actively participated in the activities of the “new opposition”. At the XIV Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (December 1925), the “new opposition” was defeated, but all opposition leaders were re-elected to the Central Committee. At the end of the congress, the Central Committee sent a group of communists to Leningrad to explain the decisions of the congress and expose the anti-party behavior of the leaders of the “new opposition”. In February 1926, the Leningrad Gubernia Party Conference removed the Zinoviev leadership and elected a new provincial committee headed by S. M. Kirov.
On January 1, 1926, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, he was elected Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, a member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and transferred to work in Moscow. After the unification of supporters of L. D. Trotsky and G. E. Zinoviev in the spring of 1926, Evdokimov became an active participant in the “united opposition.” On April 9, 1926, G. E. Evdokimov was relieved of his position as secretary and member of the Organizing Bureau, and on November 14, 1927, he was removed from the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Almost simultaneously, other leaders of the Trotskyist-Zinoviev bloc were also removed from the Central Committee. At the XV Congress of the CPSU(b) in December 1927, Evdokimov was expelled from the party.
During the period 1927-1928. works as a member of the board of the Central Union, deputy chairman of the Ulyanovsk provincial planning commission. In June 1928, he admitted his mistakes and was reinstated in the CPSU(b). Since 1929 - Chairman of the Middle Volga Regional-Territory Union of Agricultural Cooperation (Samara), member of the Board of the Grain and Animal Breeding Center, and then - Head of the Main Directorate of the Dairy Industry of the People's Commissariat of the Food Industry of the USSR.
On December 8, 1934, he was expelled from the party for the second time and arrested. He was one of the main defendants in the open trial in the case of the “Moscow Center”, allegedly connected with the “Leningrad Center”, which prepared and organized the murder of S. M. Kirov on December 1, 1934. 01/16/1935 The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to eight years in prison. Six months later, he was again brought to an open trial in the case of the “Anti-Soviet United Trotskyist-Zinoviev Center” and on August 24, 1936 he was sentenced to death. Shot.
06/13/1988 Rehabilitated by the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR. On November 5, 1988, by decision of the CPC under the Central Committee of the CPSU, he was reinstated in the party.