Shmelev Vasily Ivanovich
Lawyer, former member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party
Born in 1896 in the village of Trubetchino, Saratov Governorate; Russian; from the civil servants; higher education - graduated from the law faculty of Leningrad State University in 1927; member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party from 1915 to 1918. Participant in World War I. He was arrested in 1918 for counterrevolutionary Socialist Revolutionary work. Before his arrest, he was a legal adviser to the "Red Case Maker" artel. Lived in Leningrad on V.O., Syezdovskaya St., Bldg. 7, Apt. 3. Arrested on 13.02.1938. Sentenced on 20.03.1938 by a special troika of the Leningrad Region NKVD to capital punishment. Executed on 09.04.1938. Rehabilitated by the decree of the Presidium of the Leningrad City Court on 27.04.1957.
On December 20, 2015, a personal memorial sign was installed on house No. 7 on Kadetskaya Line in St. Petersburg in memory of V.I. Shmelev as part of the Last Address project.
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Documents (31)
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1. Extract from the marriage certificate of V.I. Shmelev and A.Ya. Nikitina, concluded on 14.08.1926 in the administrative department of the Don District Executive Committee.


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2. Certificate of the Faculty of Soviet Law of Leningrad State University No. 413/24 dated 23.06.1927 on graduation from the university by V.I. Shmelev.


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3. Letter from V.I. Shmelev dated 14.05.1930 to his wife and son Yuri, who had gone on vacation, about his desire to be with them.


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4. Letter from V.I. Shmelev dated 20.05.1930 to his wife and son Yuri, who had gone on vacation, stating that he would try to leave for them on June 15.


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5. Indictment of the operative officer of the 12th department of the UGB NKVD LO from March 1938 on investigation case No. 42303-38 against V.I. Shmelev.

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6. Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Special Troika of the NKVD LO No. 337 of 20.03.1938 on the sentence of Shmelev V.I. to execution and confiscation of his personal property.

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7. Certificate from the head of the 2nd section of the 3rd sector of department "A" of the USSR MGB dated 12/31/1952 on the execution of the sentence of the Troika of the Leningrad Regional Directorate of the NKVD dated 03/20/1938 in relation to V.I. Shmelev 04/09/1938.

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8. Certificate of the Leningrad City Court No. 4-u-057g. dated 30.05.1957, issued to Shmeleva A.Ya., on the rehabilitation of Shmelev V.I.

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9. Certificate of the Leningrad City Court No. 4-u-057g. dated 30.05.1957, issued to Shmeleva A.Ya., stating that, according to the archival and investigative file, Shmelev V.I. lived with his family in Leningrad, V.O., Syezdovskaya St., Bldg. 7, Apt. 3, where he was arrested on 14.02.1938.

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10. Certificate I-ЮБ No. 045602 on the death of V.I. Shmelev on 05/09/1942 (cause of death – toxic dysentery, place of death – dash), issued by the Civil Registry Office of the Vasileostrovsky District of Leningrad on 07/26/1957.

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11. Certificate of the Leningrad Region Department of Internal Affairs No. 9/11- dated July 29, 1957, issued to Shmeleva A. Ya. on her administrative expulsion on April 26, 1938 from Leningrad with her two minor sons and on her rehabilitation by the decree of the Leningrad Regional City Executive Committee Department of Internal Affairs dated June 12, 1957.

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12. Certificate of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region No. 35/16-26-Ш-49 dated 05/06/2003 on the rehabilitation of Shmelev B.V., who was in exile together with his mother Shmeleva A.Ya. since 05/16/1938.

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13. Transcript of interview with Shmelev B.V., recorded by Kulakova E. in 2015 (attached file)
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14. Article by the initiative group "The Last Address" in St. Petersburg about V.I. Shmelev, who was shot in 1938, and about the installation of a memorial plaque on the house where he lived as part of the "Last Address" project, 12/20/2015. (attached file)
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15. Photograph of Shmelev Ivan, father of Shmelev V.I.

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16. Photograph of V.I. Shmelev, a seminarian at the Volsk Teachers' Seminary, with a dedication on the back to comrade P.N. Naidovich dated 10/05/1910.


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18. Photograph of V.I. Shmelev in military uniform, with a dedication on the back dated 03/15/1918.


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20. Photograph of Shmelev V.I. with his wife (left) and an unknown woman.

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21. Photograph of Shmelev V.I. with his wife, son and an unknown girl.

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22. Photo by V.I. Shmelev

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23. Photograph of brothers Yuri (right) and Boris Shmelev.

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25. Photograph of brothers Yuri (left) and Boris Shmelev.


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26. Photograph of V.I. Shmelev with his wife and sons on the beach, Odessa, 1937.


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27. Group photograph of schoolchildren, Shmelev B.V. – top row, third from the right, Borisoglebsk(?), late 1940s (1939?).

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28. Photo by Shmelev Yu.V., Borisoglebsk, 04.04.1945.


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29. Photograph of Shmeleva A.Ya. with her sons, with a dedication on the back, 1946.


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30. Photograph of Shmelev Yu.V. in naval uniform.

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32. Group photo of 10th grade graduates of Railway School No. 48 in Borisoglebsk, Shmelev B.V., presumably standing on the far right in the third row 01.07.1949.

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36. Photo of Shmeleva A.Ya. with her son Yuri.

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38. Photo by Shmelev Yu.V.

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40. Photo by Shmelev Yu.V.
