Skripnik (Skrypnik) Nikolai Alekseevich

Born in 1872 in the village of Yasinovataya, Yekaterinoslav province. In 1917 - Chairman of the Central Council of Factory and Plant Committees, member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. In October 1917 he was a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee. From the end of 1917 - People's Commissar of Labor, People's Commissar of Trade and Industry in the Soviet government of Ukraine, in 1918 - Chairman of the government and People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs. In 1918-1919 - member of the board of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission. From 1919 - People's Commissar of State Control, then People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In 1922-1927 - People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General of the Ukrainian SSR. Since 1927 - People's Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1923-1925 member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), since 1925 member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. From 1928, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. In February 1933, he was dismissed from the post of People's Commissar of Education and appointed to the post of head of the State Planning Committee and deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1933, an intensive campaign was waged against him. On July 7, 1933, at the beginning of a regular meeting of the Politburo, he left the meeting room and committed suicide in his own office in the State Industrial Committee. He was buried in Kharkov.