Skalov (Sinani) Georgy Borisovich

Genus. 05/07/1896 in Moscow in the family of an agronomist and a teacher; Russian; incomplete higher education (in 1912 he graduated from a real school in Samara; in 1914–1915 he studied at the Petrograd Institute of Railway Engineers. From 1915 - volunteered at the front; promoted to ensign. He was in charge of the reserve battery, was the head of the mobilization department of the Inspector of the Artillery District in Kazan. Lieutenant. In 1916 he joined the Mensheviks. From February 1917 - in Pg., an elected member of the artillery brigade committee. In 1917 - member of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet from the RSDLP (united), member of the bureau and comrade of the chairman of the soldiers' section of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. Member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the bureau of the military department of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee 1st convocation.
From October 1917 - Assistant Commissioner of the Headquarters of the Petrograd Military District. He met the October Revolution with hostility, became a member of the “Committee for the Salvation of the Motherland and the Revolution” and the bureau of the “Union for the Defense of the Constituent Assembly”, was arrested on December 16, 1917, and was kept in the Peter and Paul Fortress until the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly (January 1918).
In 1918 he lived in Mogilev, Samara, Izhevsk, and Ufa. In the summer of 1918, during the anti-Bolshevik rebellion in the Kama region, he served in the operational department of the Headquarters of the People's Army KOMUCH, after the fall of the rebels he deserted from the People's Army, and until January 1919 hid in Ufa, from where he moved to Moscow. From April 1919 he worked in the Main Archive; sent as a fellow soldier to the Volga region. From June 1919 - in the Red Army, worked as a lecturer and propagandist in the Samara provincial military registration and enlistment office and the political department of the Southern Group of Forces of the Eastern Front. Since October 1919 - employee for special assignments at the Turkic Commission. Since November 1919 - member of the RCP (b).
In 1919–1920 - plenipotentiary representative of the Turkic Commission in Khiva. Member of the Central Committee of the CPT. Participated in the Civil War in Central Asia. He was a member of the Provisional Government of the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic, at various times he headed the Amu Darya department, the Military Council of Semirechye, commanded a detachment to eliminate the uprising in the city of Verny (Alma-Ata), worked as a commissioner of the Council of International Propaganda in Xinjiang, assistant to the plenipotentiary representative of the RSFSR and a representative of the RCP ( b) and the Comintern in Bukhara, was a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Fergana Army Group. In 1921 - Chairman of the Turkestan Cheka.
In 1921 - delegate to the X Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Participant in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
In 1921–1922 - member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Turkestan, deputy chairman of the Turkestan regional Union of landless and land-poor peasants "Koshchi", chairman of the Council of the ChON of the Turkic Republic.
In 1922 he was expelled from the party “for opposing one of the purge commissions as a regional committee secretary”; soon restored. On 12/14/1922 he was seconded to the NKID to work at the Institute of Oriental Studies. At the end of 1922/1923 he was appointed rector of the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. Since 1923 - military commissar of the 5th Infantry Division of the Western Front, Polotsk, member of the Revolutionary Military Council - head of the political department of the 13th Infantry Corps, Tajikistan.
In 1927, in China, he headed the Kaifeng group of military advisers, was an instructor of the Canton Committee of the Communist Party of China, and an adviser to the Canton government. Komkor. In 1929 he graduated from the Eastern Branch of the Academy of the Red Army. In 1929 he headed the USSR government delegation to Mongolia. It was at the disposal of the IV Directorate of the Red Army Headquarters, then at the disposal of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI). In 1930–1931 – instructor at the IKKI. Arrested 03/29/1935. He was involved in the Kremlin case. Sentenced by the Supreme Commissariat of the USSR Armed Forces on July 27, 1935 on charges of “counter-revolutionary agitation” to 10 years in labor camp with confiscation of property and loss of rights for 3 years. He died in a camp in 1940.