Matveev Mikhail Rodionovich
In 1933, he was promoted to the position of deputy head of the Administrative and Economic Administration of the OGPU Plenipotentiary Representative Office for the Leningrad Military District, and since 1934 - deputy head of the administrative and economic department (AHU) of the NKVD for the Leningrad Region.
In October-November 1937, being appointed head of the brigade for carrying out sentences at the White Sea Baltic Combine (BBK) in Sandormokh, he personally shot most of the convicts with a shot in the back of the head, in a number of cases he was assisted by the assistant commandant of the NKVD G.L. Alafer[2]. In this way, 200-250 people were killed per day. On November 10, 1937, he transferred the leadership of the execution brigade to the head of the 5th department of the 3rd department of the NKVD BBK I.A. Bondarenko and the deputy chief A.F. Shondysh.
By order of the UNKVD LO on December 20, 1937, state security captain M.R. Matveev and state security junior lieutenant G.L. Alafer were awarded valuable gifts for “dedicated work in the fight against counter-revolution.”
In 1939, he was sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp for “exceeding official authority.” During interrogations, he testified that he and G.L. Alafer were directly involved in the executions, while the other members of the brigade Gintsov, Larioshin, Vasilyev, Derevyanko, Kuznetsov and Tverdokhleb acted as guards and prepared the convicts for execution, the driver Voskresensky delivered them to the place of execution of the sentence , driver Fedotov and NKVD officer Ershov were involved in the economic support of the operation and checked the Belbaltkombinat prisoners against the execution list.
He served his sentence in Rybinsk. Released early at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he continued to work in state security agencies as head of the internal prison of the Leningrad UNKVD-UNKGB-UMGB. Retired in December 1949.
Documents (2)
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Делибаш Нина Захаровна
6. Extracts from the archival file made by Delibash E.A.
6. Extracts from the archival file made by Delibash E.A.:
6.1. Memorandum on registration as an accused in investigation case No. 95212 Delibash N.Z.
6.2. Biographical data about Delibash N.Z., taken from the questionnaire of the arrested person.
6.3. Resolution of 24.01.1930 on the selection of a written undertaking not to leave the country as a preventive measure for Delibash N.Z.
6.4. Extract from the minutes of the Special Meeting of 13.01.1930 on the expulsion of Delibash N.Z. to Siberia for 3 years.
6.5. Brief summary of the letter from Delibash to N.Z. Stalin dated 26.01.1930 with resolutions of an employee of the secret department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and Yagoda.
6.6. Extract from the protocol of 11/17/1930 on exile to Siberia for 3 years.
6.7. Accompanying note to the minutes of the Special Security Council at the OGPU Collegium dated 10/23/1930 on sending Delibash N.Z. by special convoy to Arkhangelsk, with orders to send her upon arrival to serve her term of exile in Syktyvkar.
6.8. Extract from the protocol of 09/07/1932 on the early release of Delibash N.Z. by order of Akulov.
6.9. Extract from the minutes of 20.03.1933 on the review of the case of Delibash N.Z. and on upholding the decision of the Special Security Council of 07.09.1932 on her early release.
6.10. Extract from the verdict of the visiting session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in Gorky on 11/19/1936 on the conviction of Delibash N.Z. under Articles 17, 58-8, 58-11 of the Criminal Code to 10 years of imprisonment with deprivation of rights for 5 years.
6.11. Certificate [between 11/19/1936 and 10/09/1937] from the head of the Solovetsky prison of the GUGB on Delibash N.Z. about her solidarity with the counterrevolutionary statements of Trotskyist fellow inmates.
6.12. Extract from the minutes of the meeting of special troika No. 82 of 10/09/1937 on the sentence to death of Delibash N.Z.
6.13. Act on the execution of the sentence of the NKVD troika of the Leningrad Region on 02.11.1937 under protocol No. 82 of 09.10.1937 in relation to Delibash N.Z.




Fund 017 (К-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Крейнович Юрий (Ерухим) Абрамович
108. Memorandum No. 598459 dated 04/23/1938 from the head of the ACS of the UNKVD of the USSR in the Leningrad Region to the head of the 8th department of the UGB of the UNKVD about sending a “photocard” of Grigory Rasputin and others seized during the confiscation of property from Koshkin Ya.P. and the order of the UNKVD for the Leningrad Region No. 5480 of 04/04/1938 on the transfer of the confiscated property of Forshtein A.S.
