Blyakher Alexey Borisovich

Born in 1904 in the city of Aleksandrovsk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, into a tailor’s family; Jewish; member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks); higher education. In 1920 he was an employee of the special department of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission in the 13th Army. In 1921–1923 he was a student of the workers’ faculty at Moscow University, then a cadet at the Leningrad Naval Academy. In 1927–1929 he was the executive secretary of the Komsomol organization of the horseshoe and nail factory and a student of preparatory courses for entry into a university. From 1929 he was a student of the mechanical department of the Technological Institute, in 1930 he was transferred to the Leningrad Scientific and Technical Institute; he graduated from the institute with a degree in automobile and tractor engineering. In 1937 he lived in Leningrad, Kirovsky Prospekt, Building 26/28, Apt. 111. He worked as a design engineer at Plant No. 174 named after Voroshilov. Arrested on September 1, 1937. Sentenced to capital punishment by the Commission of the NKVD and the USSR Prosecutor's Office on November 19, 1937. Executed on November 24, 1937. Rehabilitated by the Military Tribunal of the Moscow Military District on October 29, 1957.