Chernov Stepan Stepanovich
Head of the Special Purpose Police Department of the Tomsk Regional Directorate of the NKGB-NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region, Junior Lieutenant of the State Security Service (1941)
Member of the Communist Party since September 1929 (1925?); member of the Komsomol in 1920-30. A worker, Russian, primary education. Worked as a blacksmith. In 1927-30 he served in the Red Army, junior commander. In 1929 he was expelled from the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), reinstated on March 8, 1930 with a reprimand. In the OGPU-NKVD since 1930.
In May 1930, he worked in the commandant’s office of the Tomsk regional department of the OGPU of the Siberian region.
In September 1932, he was a trainee in the special department of the Tomsk operational sector of the PP OGPU ZSK.
From 11.11.1933 ZNPO for operational work of the Tisul MTS of the Tyazhinsky district of the ZSK (and in July 1934).
From March 1936, party organizer of the special department of the Tomsk City Directorate of the NKVD ZSK (and in July 1936), GB sergeant (March 22, 1936).
From April 1936 to October 15, 1936, he worked as a colonel of the 232nd Rifle Regiment of the Special Department of the 78th Rifle Division in Tomsk. (As of August 1936, he was possibly assistant to the authorized representative of the Kupinsky RO of the NKVD of the Legislative Assembly.)
Until September 1937, he worked part-time at the Tomsk Regional Directorate of the NKVD of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territorial District.
From about September 1937 (and July 1939) head of the Toguchinsky RO of the NKVD ZSK-NSO, junior lieutenant of the State Security Service (since 1938).
On September 15, 1939, the Tomsk City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) approved the head of the water department of the Tomsk City Directorate of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region.
From June 1941, head of the SPO of the Tomsk City Directorate of the NKGB-UNKVD of the Novosibirsk Region, party organizer of the NKVD City Directorate.
On September 3, 1941, the Tomsk City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) expelled him from the party and brought him to trial for drunken disorderly conduct and beating a station attendant.
On February 19, 1942, the Novosibirsk Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) re-established the party and issued a severe party reprimand for a drunken brawl.
No later than September 1942, he was transferred to the Yurginsky District; in 1942–43, he headed the Yurginsky Regional Directorate of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region-Kemerovo Region, “uncovered” a number of counterrevolutionary organizations and individual “anti-Sovietists.” Yurginsky Regional Directorate of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
On May 15, 1943, he was expelled from the party for disrupting work, attempted rape, drunkenness, speculation, and misappropriation of material evidence—70 kg of flour, etc.; he also illegally received food ration cards from three organizations.
21-29.5.1943 The Kemerovo Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) instructed I.M. KIRYUSHKIN to bring Ch. to criminal responsibility for embezzlement of state funds.
On September 22, 1943, the CPC under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) decided to review the case of Ch.
In 1944, the head of the special group of the OK plant No. 75 in the city of Yurga, Kemerovo region.
Source: Talovskaya tragedy (based on information from A. G. TEPLYAKOV)
Documents (1)
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 040: Воробьев
002. Decree on the selection of a preventive measure. Tomsk, September 1941
A decision to select a preventive measure—pretrial detention—for citizen Dmitry Yakovlevich Vorobyov, born in 1883, a resident of the village of Gorbunova. He is suspected of crimes under Article 58-II, Part 2 of the RSFSR. The document was approved by the Head of the NKVD and sanctioned by the Prosecutor.
Full transcript:
I APPROVE
Head of the NKVD Directorate for the Novosibirsk Region
Major of State Security
/BECKMAN/
„ __ “ September 1941
Regional Prosecutor for the Novosibirsk Region
„ __ “ September 1941
RESOLUTION
(on the selection of a preventive measure)
City of Tomsk, “__” September 1941. I, an employee of the Tomsk City Directorate of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk Region, KONEV, having examined the materials received by the City Directorate of the NKVD on criminal activity:
Surname VOROVIEVA
Name and patronymic of Dmitry Yakovlevich
Year of birth 1883 Place of birth: Gorbunova village, Kozyulinsky village council, Tomsk district, Novosibirsk region
Profession and specialty [empty]
Place of work and position: collective farm "Ust-Krasny Rybak" village Gorbunova, Kozyulinsky village council,
Party membership no party.
Literate education
Nationality: Russian
USSR citizenship
Marital status [empty]
Address: Gorbunova village, Kozyulinsky village council, Tomsk district, Novosibirsk region
FOUND: that VOROVIEV D. Ya. is suspected of crimes under Art. 58, paragraph 10, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, and taking into account that VOROVIEV D. Ya., while at liberty, may abscond from the investigation and the court, guided by Art. Art. 145 and 158 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR,
RESOLVED:
The measure of restraint for Dmitry Yakovlevich Vorovyev's evasion of investigation and trial shall be detention, which, in accordance with Article 146 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR, shall be announced to the arrested person against signature in this resolution.
In accordance with Article 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR, a copy of the order shall be sent to the prosecutor and transferred to the prison warden for inclusion in the prison personnel file.
Employee of the Tomsk City NKVD signature / KONEV /
AGREE: Head of the Special Purpose Police Department of the Tomsk City NKVD
Junior Lieutenant of State Security / CHERNOV /
Head of the Tomsk City NKVD Lieutenant of the State Security Service / SOLOVIEV /
This resolution was announced to me [empty]
List of persons in the document:
- Vorobyov Dmitry Yakovlevich is a defendant in the case;
- Bekman Mikhail Fomich - Head of the NKVD Directorate for the Novosibirsk Region, Major of State Security, approved the Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure;
- Konev, an employee of the Tomsk City Directorate of the NKVD, drew up the Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure;
- Chernov Stepan Stepanovich - Head of the Special Purpose Police Department of the Tomsk City NKVD, Junior Lieutenant of State Security, approved the Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure;
- Leonid Kuzmich Solovyov, Chief of the Tomsk City NKVD, State Security Lieutenant, approved the Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure.
Source information:
A typewritten form; it appears to be a copy of the document, as it is missing dates and signatures. Only one signature—the autograph—is that of the employee who drafted the Resolution. The document's condition and legibility are satisfactory.
Presence of litter:
In the center, above the main text, is the stamp: “RE-REGISTERED IN 1941.”
