Pinchuk Petr Petrovich

Born on June 9, 1898 in the village of Starinka, Vileika district, Vilna province, into a peasant family. In 1915-1916 he studied and graduated with honors from the Petrograd Higher Vladimir Primary School, which corresponded to the completion of the 4th grade of the gymnasium. In 1917 he graduated from the first Orienbaum school for warrant officers, after which he was sent to serve in the 33rd Siberian Rifle Regiment. At the end of 1917, after demobilization from the army of the Provisional Government, he went to his relatives in the village. Kolpashevo, Narym Territory, from where at the end of 1918 he was mobilized into the Kolchak army. He served in the 6th Mariinsky Regiment of the Pepelyaevsky Corps, participated in battles with the Red Army troops near Perm, where he was wounded. After treatment in the hospital, he was sent to serve in the 43rd Siberian Reserve Regiment. At the end of 1919, soldiers of the regiment, sent to suppress the Red partisans, went over to the side of the partisans. Pinchuk, having the rank of ensign, was arrested by the soldiers and, after a short trial, was released and returned to his family in the village of Kolpashevo.

With the establishment of Soviet power in the Narym region, he served as a senior clerk and assistant to the chief of police, was characterized as “a good, honest and dedicated administrator, excellently knowledgeable about his job as a clerical worker, was a devoted, honest and diligent employee of the Soviet workers’ and peasants’ government, and was not found guilty of anything reprehensible.” was not…". However, on the basis of a circular secret order of the RSFSR Police Department dated January 4, 1923 (No. 7), he was dismissed from the police. As a former officer of the Tsarist and Kolchak armies, he was on a special secret register with the GAPU. From October 1, 1923 to February 10, 1924, he served as a clerk and secretary for the people's judge of the 6th district of the Tomsk district, and was also characterized as an executive employee devoted to the workers' and peasants' government. In 1936, he passed the test for the title of member of the college of defenders and was enrolled in the Tomsk College of Defenders at the Tomsk Permanent Session of the Siberian Regional Court with a place of work in the village. Kolpashevo. Family: wife Taisiya Antonovna Pinchuk, worked as a typist in the Narymsky Okrug ONO, daughter Valerina, 11 years old, and son Evgeniy, 1 year old.

Arrested on September 3, 1937 . Accused of counter-revolutionary activities and membership of the Socialist-Revolutionary-monarchist organization. The accusation was based on the fact of his service in Kolchak’s army and participation in hostilities against units of the Red Army. By a resolution of the troika of the UNKVD NSO dated September 22, 1937, he was sentenced to VMN. Shot on October 3, 1937 in Tomsk prison among 81 people. Rehabilitated on February 7, 1956.

Source: archive of the Memorial Museum; inf. Pinchuk A.P., great-grandson P.P. Pinchuk.