Znamensky Ilya Ivanovich

Genus. in 1886 in Kyiv in the family of a gymnasium teacher; Russian; higher education: graduated from a gymnasium in Kyiv in 1895, St. Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineers in 1912, by profession a hydraulic engineer; b/p. In 1927, the PPOGPU LVO was arrested on charges of taking a bribe, the case was dropped. In 1930 he lived in Leningrad, worked as chief engineer of the Bureau for drawing up the irrigation project of the Hungry Steppe, associate professor at the Leningrad Hydrotechnical Institute (according to other sources - senior researcher at the State Scientific and Reclamation Institute); arrested 09/28/1930; sentenced by the Kogpu on August 23, 1931 to 10 years in a concentration camp; By decree of the Kogpu dated April 22, 1932, the term was reduced to 5 years. By resolution of the Kogpu dated November 4, 1932, he was released early. On November 10, 1932, on the Moscow-Volga canal, he joined the OGPU and took the position of head of the production research laboratory of the MVS Dmitlag NKVD Directorate; in 1933 the conviction was overturned by the Central Election Commission. From 06/05/1935 – head of the structures department; from 12/18/1935 – deputy head of the technical department of the Volzhsky region; from 02/25/1937 – head of the department for the delivery of structures of the Government Acceptance Commission. From 05.11.1937 – in Volgolag.