Korniliev Sergei Ilyich
Head of the Prison Department of the NKVD Novosibirsk Region (1939), Head of the NKVD for Tomsk Oblast (1944-1946)
Born on March 20, 1904 in Novo-Nikolaevsk. At the age of 14, he began working as a worker at Turkin's mill. After the liberation of Siberia from Kolchak, he studied at the Tomsk workers' faculty for two years. Then, until 1927, he worked as a clerk at the Novo-Nikolaevsk (Novosibirsk) Cheka and as a political controller for the plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU in the West Siberian Territory. Member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1927. In 1932, he became an authorized representative of the special department of the Transbaikal Group of Forces in Chita, and also served in Irkutsk as commandant of the NKVD Directorate for the East Siberian Territory.
At the height of mass repressions, he was the head of the prison of the NKVD Directorate for Novosibirsk Oblast, through which thousands of so-called "enemies of the people" passed. In 1937, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, and a year later, having received the rank of lieutenant of State Security, he became the head of the prison department of the NKVD Directorate for Novosibirsk Oblast. From this position, he was transferred to work in the newly formed Tomsk Oblast. Colonel of State Security.
Here he became involved in unseemly affairs that became the subject of investigation in local and Moscow party bodies, after which, at the end of 1946, he was removed from his post, and on February 5, 1947, by a resolution of the bureau of the Tomsk regional party committee, he was expelled from its ranks “for abuse of office, theft of socialist property, as morally and politically corrupt.”
As of November 1939: Head of the Prison Department of the NKVD for the Novosibirsk Region, Lieutenant of State Security.
August 1944 – December 1946 – Chief of the NKVD Directorate for Tomsk Oblast, Lieutenant Colonel, then – State Security Colonel.
Participated in numerous executions.
Sources: Larkov N., Chernova I. Korniliev Sergei Ilyich / Police masters, commissars, chiefs (Heads of law enforcement agencies of the Tomsk province, district and region in the XIX-XX centuries) Tomsk.-1999.P. 149-150.
Website Memory of the People. Registration and service card.
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Documents (6)
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 002: Деев
006. Referral of a sick pretrial prisoner to a prison hospital. Novosibirsk, November 7, 1939
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SECRET
Stamp:
NKVD for the West Siberian region.
Prison department
November 7, 1939
No. 207
Novosibirsk, Kommunisticheskaya, 69
To the Chief of the Inner Prison
Foreman comrade ERSHOV.
COPY: Head of Prison No. 1 of the NKVD
To State Security Lieutenant ROMANOV.
Immediately send the sick pretrial prisoner DEYEV T.S. with his personal file and belongings to the prison hospital.
The head of prison No. 1 accepts prisoner DEYEV and places him in the hospital.
Head of the Prison Department of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region State Security Lieutenant signature /KORNILEV/
Senior Inspector of the Accounting Group State Security Sergeant signature / YUSHKOV/
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 002: Деев
009. On the transfer of pretrial prisoners: DEYEV Tikhon Sergeevich and ALEKSEENKO Maxim Kirillovich for delivery to the Internal Prison. Novosibirsk, December 14, 1939
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USSR
DEPARTMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIA OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS FOR THE NOVOSIBIRSK REGION
"PRISON" DEPARTMENT
Novosibirsk city
Kommunisticheskaya st., 69
December 14, 1939 No. 407
Head of Prison No. 1 NKVD NSO Lieutenant of State Security Comrade ROMANOV
COPY: Chief of the Internal Prison, Senior Sergeant Comrade Ershov
Hand over to the convoy of the Internal Prison with the personal files and belongings of pre-trial prisoners: DEYEV Tikhon Sergeyevich and ALEKSEENKO Maksim Kirillovich for delivery to the Internal Prison.
Head of the Internal Prison, place the first in cell No. 5, and the second in cell No. 16.
Head of the Prison Department of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region (KORNILEV)
Senior Inspector of the 1st Department T.O. State Security Sergeant (YUSHKOV)
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 022: Краус
010. Arrest warrant for Kraus K.G. Tomsk, February 1944.
Arrest order for Kraus K.G. from February 1944 on a new charge. While in prison No. 3, he is accused of counterrevolutionary pro-fascist agitation among cellmates (Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR), praising Hitler and the German army.
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I APPROVE:
DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE NKVD DEPARTMENT OF THE NSO STATE SECURITY MAJOR /KORNILEV/
I AUTHORIZE ARREST:
PROSECUTOR OF NOVOSIBIRSK REGION STATE COUNSELLOR OF JUSTICE III CLASS [signature]
DECREE / For arrest /
City. Tomsk Novosibirsk region "__" February 1944
I, Deputy Head of Prison No. 3 of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region, Junior Lieutenant of State Security BASHLYKOV, having reviewed the material on criminal activity:
KRAUSS Karl Gottliebovich, born in 1905, native of the village of Orlovskoye, Markshtatsky District, Volga German ASSR, German by nationality, citizen of the USSR, no permanent residence, illiterate, from the middle peasants, without a permanent place of residence or work, was exiled to the Kozhevnikovsky District of the Novosibirsk Region, from where he fled. For which he was arrested on 23.V.43 by the Tugansky ROM NKVD and charged under Art. 82, Part II of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, and is currently being held in Prison No. 3 in Tomsk.
FOUND:
That KRAUSS, while under arrest in prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO during November–December 1943, systematically carried out counter-revolutionary [pro-fascist] agitation among his cellmates, aimed at undermining the power of the Soviet state, for example:
In mid-November 1943, KRAUSS denigrated the Soviet government and the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and made various insults against the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Here he also praised the cannibal Hitler and his “order.”
In the last days of November 1943, KRAUSS slandered the Red Army and, on the contrary, praised the German army and its equipment, proving to his cellmates the inevitable defeat of the USSR in the modern war with Nazi Germany.
In the first days of December 1943, KRAUSS made slanderous statements about the Soviet government and the Red Army. At the same time, he praised the German army and the bandit Hitler.
In the last days of December 1943, KRAUSS expressed similar counter-intelligence fabrications, and simultaneously slandered the Soviet press.
The pro-fascist activities of KRAUSS are confirmed by the testimony of witnesses VYKHREST P.E., FEDOSEYEV A.K., RYABKOV T.P. and MAKARENKO A.I.
Based on the above
RESOLVED:
KRAUSS Karl Gottliebovich is to be arrested and searched.
Deputy Head of Prison No. 3 NKVD NSO Junior Lieutenant of State Security /Bashlykov/
AGREE: Head of Prison No. 3 NKVD NSO Captain of State Security /VASILIEV/
Head of the Prison Department of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region Major of State Security /BOZHOK/
Persons mentioned:
- Kraus Karl Gottliebovich - accused.
- Korniliev is a major of state security, deputy head of the NKVD NSO.
- Bashlykov is a junior lieutenant of state security, deputy head of prison No. 3.
- Vykhrest P.E., Fedoseeva A.K., Ryabkova T.P., Makarenko A.I. - witnesses.
- Vasiliev is a captain of state security, head of the prison.
- Bozhok is a major in state security, head of the prison department.
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 022: Краус
011. Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure. Tomsk, February 1944
Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure from February 1944, duplicating the arrest resolution (Doc. 10). The basis is suspicion of crimes under Art. 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and the possibility of hiding from the investigation.
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The text largely repeats the content of Sheet 14 and Sheet 15, including the names of Korniliev, Bashlykov, Vasiliev and Bozhok.
...
FOUND:
That KRAUSS Karl Gottliebovich is suspected of crimes under Article 58-10, Part II of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and taking into account that KRAUSS, being in custody in prison on general grounds, may be transferred from prison and thereby hide from the investigation and trial...
RESOLVED:
The measure to prevent the methods of evading investigation and trial in relation to KRAUSS Karl Gottliebovich is to be held in custody in prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO...
Persons mentioned:
- Kraus Karl Gottliebovich - accused.
- Korniliev is a major of state security, deputy head of the NKVD NSO.
- Bashlykov is a junior lieutenant of state security, deputy head of prison No. 3.
- Vasiliev is a captain of state security, head of prison No. 3.
- Bozhok is a major in state security, head of the prison department.
Fund 100 / Inventory 004 / Case 005: Демидов Трофим Кондратьевич
013. Resolution on the removal from the register of special settlers Demidova Valentina Trofimovna. village of Pudino, January 25, 1946, approved on February 21, 1946
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"I APPROVE"
Head of the NKVD Directorate for Tomsk Region
Colonel of State Security signature /Korniliev/
February 21, 1946
SECRET
RESOLUTION
"25" January 1946 this city Pudino Tomsk region
I, Deputy Head of the NKVD Department of the Pudinsky District of Tomsk Region, have reviewed the [personal??] file of the special settler Valentina Trofimovna Demidova, year, month and date of birth 1929, with regard to his release from special exile
FOUND:
Special settler Demidova Valentina Trofimovna was deported in March 1930 from the village of Klyavinsky, Kuibyshevsky district, Novosibirsk region (territory) in the family of her father (mother) Demidov Trofim Kondratyevich.
At the time of the eviction of the special settler Valentina Trofimovna Demidova to the special settlement, she was 1 year _____ months old.
During her time in special exile, Valentina Trofimovna Demidova did not discredit herself in any way.
There are no compromising materials on him. Therefore, based on the above and guided by the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 1143-280s of 22/10/1938 and the explanation of the NKVD of the USSR No. 9 of 8/1/1940.
RESOLVED:
Special settler Valentina Trofimovna Demidova, originally from the village of Klyavinskoye, is REMOVED from the register of special settlers, without the right to reside in restricted areas of the USSR.
His children should be removed from the register along with him: ___
Deputy Chief of the Pudinsky RO NKVD OSP NKVD for Tomsk region. State Security Lieutenant / signature /
AGREE:
Chief of the Pudinsky RO NKVD Captain of State Security /signature/
Chief of the OSP UNKVD Tomsk region signature /Major Mishchenko/
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 002: Деев
024. On sending the report of the medical examination of the corpse to the head of the prison department of the NKVD NSO. Tomsk, prison No. 3. May 3, 1941.
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TO THE CHIEF OF THE PRISON DEPARTMENT OF THE NKVD OF THE NSO
TO STATE SECURITY LIEUTENANT comrade KORNILEV
City of Novosibirsk
Copy: TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NOVOSIBIRSK REGIONAL COURT
City of Novosibirsk
We hereby forward the medical examination report of the corpse dated 3/V-41 of prisoner Tikhon Sergeevich DEYEV, 1881, for your disposal.
At the same time, we inform you that prisoner DEEV was held in prison as an investigator under Article 58-2-10-11 and was listed as being in custody by the Novosibirsk Regional Court.
Appendix: on sheet 1.
Head of Prison No. 3 of the NKVD Novosibirsk Region.
Lieutenant of State Security /BOZHOK/
Secretary / [????]/
Beginning rank parts /EREMINA/
Deputy DPN prison / OSIPCHUK/
