"Leningrad case"
"Leningrad case" - a series of trials in the late 1940s and early 1950s against party and state leaders of the RSFSR in the USSR. The victims of repression were all the leaders of the Leningrad regional, city and district organizations of the CPSU (b), almost all Soviet and state figures who, after the Great Patriotic War, were nominated from Leningrad for leadership work in Moscow and other regional party organizations. Arrests were made both in Leningrad and throughout the country - in Moscow, Gorky, Murmansk, Simferopol, Novgorod, Ryazan, Pskov, Petrozavodsk, Tallinn.
According to the first of these processes, the chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR N. A. Voznesensky, the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR M. I. Rodionov, the secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks A. A. Kuznetsov, the first secretary of the Leningrad regional committee and the city committee P. S. Popkov, the second secretary of the Leningrad city committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Ya. F. Kapustin, the chairman of the Leningrad City Executive Committee P. G. Lazutin were involved. All the accused 09/30/1950 were sentenced to death. The sentences were carried out on the same day.
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1. Article by Sidorovsky L.I. "Voznesensky. A family of fiery Bolsheviks - through the eyes of relatives, friends, lines of memories ”in the newspaper“ Smena ” No. 32 (18882) for 02/09/1988.
