Gabaev Georgy Solomonovich

Genus. in 1877 in Simferopol. Graduated from the Nikolaev Engineering School (1898). Founding member of the Russian Military Historical Society (1907). In 1915 - colonel, commander of the Life Guards engineer battalion. Participant of the 1st World War, chief of staff of an infantry division, army corps. Awarded all Russian orders, up to and including St. Anna 1st degree with swords. Since 1918 - employee of the Military Department of the Main Archive. From 1919-1921 - head of the 21st Military Field Construction of the Red Army. In March 1921 he was briefly arrested in connection with the Kronstadt rebellion. Since 1921 - employee of the Military History Section of the Petrograd Department of Museums. In 1925 he was brought in as a witness in the investigation into the case of an occult circle. Arrested on 06/15/1926, by a resolution of the GPU OSO dated 06/18/1926 he was sentenced to administrative deportation for 3 years (“non-reporting”, “refusal to testify”). Sent to the Ust-Sysolsk region (modern Syktyvkar). According to the amnesty of 1927, the deportation was reduced by 1/4 of the term. In October 1928 he moved to Kursk, because he did not have the right to return to Leningrad ("-6"). Arrested in Kursk on March 6, 1930, in connection with the “Academy of Sciences case.” 02/24/1931 transferred to Kresty. Sentenced on May 10, 1931 by the GPU Co. 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to execution, replaced by ten years in a concentration camp. He served his sentence in Solovki and arrived on July 25, 1931. He worked as a clerk for a general works company, head. card index of the Kremlin URB, archivist of the financial unit, gave lectures on the military history of Solovki. On November 21, 1933, during the reorganization of the Solovetsky camp, he was sent to Medvezhya Gora, where he worked as a card reader for the URO and as a clerk in the supply department. In the fall of 1934 he was transferred to Dmitlag, on 10/22/1934 he was sent to the city of Dmitrov, he worked as an assistant technical editor in the editorial office of a monograph on the White Sea Canal, as a curator of the museum of the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal and art. engineer technical inspection. Released early on 07/05/1937 "in connection with the completion of the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal for shock work." On 08/23/1934 he moved to the town of Taldom, Moscow region, and worked at the local history museum for 2 1/2 months. On November 3, 1939 he received disability. From January 1923 to August 1943 he was in the city of Kalyazin, Kalinin region, then in the Kalyazin region: in the village. Semenyaevo and village. Bachmanovo (Leontyevsky s/s). At the call of his daughter, he came to Leningrad on 09/06/1944, was deported on 10/01/1944 to the Kirishi district of the Leningrad region, and settled in the village. Budogoshch. Author of the memoir “My Trials in 1921 and from 1926 to the Present” (1945). Died in Leningrad.