Harry Alexey Nikolaevich

Definition: International journalist, Arctic specialist. Leading essayist of the Izvestia newspaper. The writer, a polyglot, spoke French, German, English, Polish, Czech and other languages.
Years of life: 1903-1960
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At the age of 15, he was assistant chief of staff of the Red Guard detachment under the Soviet of the Petrograd side of Petrograd. From January 1918, commissar of the flying detachment of the Cheka, then commander of a cavalry platoon of a special detachment. In 1919 in Odessa he was elected a member of the Bessarabian Bureau of the RCP/b/, a member of the underground revolutionary committee. Later, a member of the Cheka board in Bessarabia and Odessa, where he met Kotovsky, fought under his command, his adjutant. Awarded medals and two Orders of the Red Banner. After the civil war he worked in Kharkov. In 1921 he took part in the suppression of the Tambov uprising. In 1925 he was transferred from Kharkov to Moscow as a member of the board and executive secretary of the Comintern. In 1926 he was a student at the Military Academy of the Red Army. Graduated from the NKVD flight school. I was in contact with Bukharin. Leading essayist of the Izvestia newspaper. The writer, a polyglot, spoke French, German, English, Polish, Czech and other languages. He was arrested three times. Released twice at the request of “major figures of the party and state.” In 1938 he was arrested in Moscow and convicted under Art. 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. From 07/04/1938 to 07/17/1938 stage from Krasnoyarsk to Dudinka. At this stage there were Baev A.A., Popov B.S., Agranovsky A.D. He was in charge of the plant's technical library. He took part in the publication of the "Bulletin of Scientific and Technical Information" in Norilsk. Published in the newspapers "For Metal", "Soviet Taimyr". In 1947-1948 he translated from French intercepted correspondence between the Frenchmen Rossi Jacques and Francois Petit for GB captain Anatoly Arsenyev. The notes were handed over to O.B. Petri, before handing them over to Arsenyev. After the arrest of Jacques Rossi in February 1948, he was confronted. Released early on March 17, 1944. On this day, he was listed as an engineer in the technical information bureau of the technical department of the plant management. He worked as a freelancer in Norilsk. On 03/26/1944 he became a senior engineer at BTI and TsNTB. In 1950 he was in exile in Achinsk, until 1955 he lived and worked in Krasnoyarsk, because was deprived of the right to reside in Moscow and other capital cities. In 1955, the Supreme Court of the USSR Armed Forces quashed all charges due to the lack of corpus delicti.

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Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Драбкина Елизавета Яковлевна
16. Article by S. Shcheglov “Even in the mouth of the Gulag, she remained a Bolshevik,” dedicated to E. Drabkina and published in an unspecified newspaper No. 12 (13) for 2001.