Kanatchikov Semyon Ivanovich

Genus. in 1879 in the village of Gusevo, Volokolamsk district, Moscow province. Chairman of the Tomsk military revolutionary headquarters in 1918, member of the Sibrevkom in 1920, rector of the Communist University in Petrograd. Later head. Press Department and Eastpart Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, editor of the Krasnaya Nov magazine, responsible. editor of Literaturnaya Gazeta, editor of the publishing house Soviet Writer. Arrested 11/02/1936. Included in the Stalinist execution lists of 05/15/1937. The certificate of the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia dated 07/18/1996 states that on 07/20/1937 the OS at the NKVD of the USSR was sentenced under Art. 58-8, 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 8 years in prison, died 10/19/1940. Rehabilitated 11/21/1956.