Avvakumov Sergey Iosifovich

Born in 1894 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a cab driver. In August 1914, he volunteered for the front: first as a soldier, and after completing a four-month course at the Vladimir Infantry School in 1915, as a junior officer. In September 1918, he was mobilized into the Red Army and served until 1927. In March 1921, he participated in the liquidation of the Kronstadt rebellion as the head of a barrage detachment. Then he served in the army for 6 years as a political worker and teacher of political science. At the same time, in 1925 he graduated from the university. After demobilization from the army, due to his age, he worked as the head of the department of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the Leningrad Regional Soviet Party School. In May 1933 he was appointed deputy. Director for Scientific Affairs of the Leningrad Institute of History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). From June 1935 to 1941 he worked in city museums. From 1939 to 1941 at Leningrad State University as acting professor gave a course of lectures, supervised postgraduate studies on the history of the CPSU (b). From June 1942 to March 1945 he worked as director of the Leningrad Institute of History of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, from March 1945 to August 1947 - deputy head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In 1949 he was sentenced in the “Leningrad case” under Art. 58 to 25 years in labor camp with confiscation of property. In conclusion, on general work in the Irkutsk region. The family was exiled to Kustanai for 5 years. Rehabilitated on June 2, 1954 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. In July 1954 he was released and returned to Leningrad. In February 1955, he was again enrolled in the Leningrad Institute of History as a junior researcher in the USSR History Sector.