Gallop Abram Grigorievich

Genus. in 1882 in Tashkent; member of the RSDLP (M) since 1902. He began working in the Berlin organization of the RSDLP, in 1904 he returned to Russia, in 1905 he was arrested and exiled to the Vologda province, he fled, lived illegally in Moscow, where he was again arrested and released in the October days of 1905. In December 1905 - April 1906 worked in St. Petersburg, in the St. Petersburg Committee, was arrested and exiled to Tver, from where he fled abroad, was treated for tuberculosis in Switzerland. From 1912 he lived in Simferopol, organized a trade union of bank employees, from 1915 he lived in Moscow, worked in the Military-Industrial Committee and was chairman of the Union of Employees and Workers of the Military-Industrial Committee. At the beginning of the revolution, he was elected from the workers to the Moscow Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. In 1917 - deputy mayor of Simferopol. An outstanding worker-organizer, well acquainted with the practice of the Western European labor movement. Nominated as a candidate for deputy of the Constituent Assembly from the Crimean Union on the lists of the RSDLP(o). Arrested on April 12, 1931 on charges of “sabotage, espionage and counter-revolutionary activities”; imprisoned in a concentration camp for 10 years with the eviction of the family and confiscation of property. By decree of the Kogpu dated August 3, 1931, his wife was allowed to live freely throughout the USSR. In 1931 he appeared in cases initiated in connection with the process of the “Union Bureau of the Mensheviks”, mentioned in the interrogations of N.N. Sukhanov dated 02/01/1931: “Gallop, b. Menshevik, was only once, retired from politics and afraid of it, an extremely loyal official, colorless in public matters,” and M.P. Yakubovich dated January 18, 1931: “A.G. Gallop during his visits to the USSR, during his service abroad, conveyed both oral information, from the words of members of the foreign Central Committee, and, it seems, letters from the foreign Central Committee, and brought back information from Moscow.”