Chudnovsky Yakov Petrovich

Born in 1886 in Kremenchug; member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1918; incomplete higher education - studied at the Tomsk Technological Institute in 1910-1911 and at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute in 1912-1915. In 1919-1921 he served in the Red Army, in 1921-1923 - authorized representative of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade (NKVT) in Karelia, assistant manager in the licensing department of the North-West Regional Administration of the NKVT. From September 1923 - in the North-West Regional Administration for Photography and Cinematography (Sevzapkino), from September 1923 to March 1925 - manager of the State Cinema Theaters, head of the commercial department of Sevzapkino. From March 1925 - head of the Leningrad branch of the All-Russian photo-cinematographic joint-stock company "Sovkino". In 1925-1927 - inspector at the board of JSC "Sovkino" in Moscow, head of the film distribution group of the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography (ARC). In 1928-1933 - organizational secretary, manager of affairs and manager of the Cinema House of the Leningrad Association of Workers of Revolutionary Cinematography (LenARRK). In the summer of 1936, he worked as director of the Vserabis Rest House in Siverskaya. Lived in Leningrad. He was arrested for the first time in 1935, released four months later. He was arrested again in the spring of 1937, released again four months later and sent into exile in the city of Leninabad in the Tajik SSR. He worked as an economist in the Leninabad city communal services department. He was arrested for the third time on June 21, 1938. Sentenced in the autumn of 1939 by the visiting troika of the NKVD to 5 years in a labor camp. Died in the camp on 29.08.1944. Rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of the Tajik SSR on 21.01.1957.