Engel Nikolay Albertovich

Genus. in 1892. Member of the RSDLP (b) since February 1913. In 1911 he graduated from high school, entered St. Petersburg University, and in 1912 he was expelled for participating in student riots. In 1911-1915 worked as a teacher for private individuals. He entered the Psychoneurological Institute, completed 2 courses, was arrested at the beginning of 1915 for belonging to the Bolshevik Party and exiled in March 1915 to the village. Klimino, Yenisei district, Yenisei province for three years. Released from exile in 1917. From May 1917 to February 1918, proofreader and assistant secretary in the newspaper Pravda (Petrograd), from February to June 1918 - Red Guard, Yuryevo-Putilov partisan detachment. From 1918 to June 1925 - editor-in-chief and head of the ROSTA Bureau (Leningrad). From June 1925 to 1927 - Chairman of the press workers section of the Union of Education Workers (Leningrad). From June 1927 to July 1930 - head of the Leningrad regional lit. From 1930 to February 1932 - head of the feature films sector at the Leningrad Film Factory. From February to May 1930 - director of the Radiofilm factory. From 1932 to October 1934 - Chairman of the Board of the Vremya Publishing House (Leningrad). 1933-1934 - Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Russian Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From October 1934 to September 1935 - head of the office of a working author in Profizdat, Moscow. From 1935 to 1936, head of the editorial department of the publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In December 1935, he was expelled from the CPSU (b) “for connections with a class-alien element”, reinstated by the decision of the CCP under the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) in June 1936. In 1937-1939. - Art. Referent of the Department of Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1939 to 1941 - Scientific Secretary of the Department of Literature and Language of the USSR Academy of Sciences.