Kazansky Porfiry Alekseevich

Born in 1885 in the village of Kerevskoye, Bogorodsky volost, Tomsk district, Tomsk province, in the family of an official of the prison department; Russian; higher education (graduated from the law faculty of Tomsk University in 1911); member of the RSDLP(m) in 1906-1907 and in 1917. In 1915, he headed the Barnaul branch of the Society of Teachers and Those Who Taught, taught history and geography at the Zaichanskaya Sunday school for adults. In April and August 1917, he was elected as a member of the Barnaul City Duma. He regarded the October events as a usurpation of power by the Bolsheviks, spoke out against the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly, and did not approve of Kolchak's dictatorship. In 1917, together with G. Pushkarev, he created the literary association "Aguliprok" (Altai Provincial Literary and Food Committee), which united many writers and existed in Barnaul until 1920. In July 1918, after the fall of Soviet power, he was elected a member of the provincial land administration, became the head of the public education department, and from December - deputy chairman of the administration. He was a member of the board, chairman of the Altai department of the Russian Geographical Society, a member of the board of the cultural and educational department of the Altai cooperatives, later transformed into an independent cultural and educational union of the Altai Territory; editor of the newspaper "Altai Ray". By November 1919, when the activities of the provincial land administration were paralyzed, he left it, taught geography at a girls' gymnasium, a provincial soviet party school, a school named after the III International, at the workers' faculty of Tomsk University, where he was also the head teacher. Author of the textbook "A Summary Course in Geography for Adult Students" (1922). As a Menshevik, he was fired from his job and arrested in 1923; released after publishing a repentant statement in the newspaper "Krasny Altai". After that, he received permission to teach geography at School No. 22. In 1931, he was arrested again and released "due to lack of evidence". In 1932, he moved with his family to the village of Tyumentsevo, where he taught literature and geography at a local school and led a literary circle. In August 1937, he was fired for allegedly teaching in an apolitical manner. Arrested on 18 December 1937. Sentenced by the Supreme Court of the USSR on 02 July 1938 under Articles 58-1a, 58-2, 58-8, 58-11 to capital punishment. He was executed on 16 September 1938. Place of burial: Barnaul. Rehabilitated in the 1937 case by the Supreme Court of the USSR on 02.02.1960.