Shumyatsky Boris Zakharovich
The head of Soviet cinema in the first half of the 1930s.
Born in 1886 in Verkhneudinsk; Jewish; from a peasant family; primary education; member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Head of the Main Directorate of the Film and Photo Industry under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. Lived in Moscow, 2 Serafimovich Street (Government House), apt. 398. Arrested on 18 January 1938. Sentenced on 28 July 1938 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charges of participating in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization and espionage to the Supreme Court. Executed on 29 July 1938 in Moscow, burial place - Kommunarka. Rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in February 1956.
