Alexander Gorkin

Alexander Fedorovich Gorkin (September 5, 1897, Rameshki Village, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire – June 29, 1988, Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) was a Soviet state and party leader, Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1938–1953 and 1956–1957), Hero of Socialist Labour (1967).

Alexander Fedorovich Gorkin
Александр Фёдорович Горкин
Photo of Alexander Gorkin, 1938
Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
In office
February 12, 1957 – September 20, 1972
Preceded byAnatoly Volin
Succeeded byLev Smirnov
Chairman of the Central Audit Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
February 3, 1959 – October 17, 1961
Preceded byPeter Moskatov
Succeeded byNonna Muravyova
Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union
In office
January 15, 1938 – March 15, 1954
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byNikolay Pegov
In office
July 16, 1956 – February 12, 1957
Preceded byNikolay Pegov
Succeeded byMikhail Georgadze
First Secretary of the Orenburg Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
In office
December 20, 1934 – July 11, 1937
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byPeter Mitrofanov
Personal details
BornSeptember 5, 1897
Rameshki Village, Bezhetsky Uyezd, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedJune 29, 1988 (aged 90)
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
ChildrenDaughter Maya and son
EducationInstitute of Red Professors
(1 year)
AwardsHero of Socialist Labour
Order of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Order of the Badge of Honour
Signature

Biography

Born into a peasant family. In 1916, he joined the Bolsheviks. In 1917, he graduated from the Tver Gymnasium. From August 1917 to June 1919, Secretary of the Tver City Council of Deputies, from December 1918 to February 1919, Chairman of the Provincial Executive Committee. In 1919, a member of the Board of the Kursk Governatorial Extraordinary Commission, the head of the Penza Governatorial Village Department and out-of-school subdivision. In 1920–1921, at political work in the Red Army.

In 1921–1933, an employee of the Tver Governatorial Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Kyrgyz Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Orenburg Governatorial Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Agricultural Union, the Poultry and Water Union, the Middle Volga Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), apparatus of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In 1931–1932, he studied at the Agrarian Faculty of the Institute of Red Professors in Moscow. In 1933–1934, the Second Secretary of the Middle Volga Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in Samara.[1][2]

From December 1934 to July 1937, he was the First Secretary of the newly created Orenburg Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).[3] During this period, mass repressions took place in the Orenburg Oblast,[4][5][6] during which, in particular, all members of the Bureau of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) were killed.[7][8]

From July 9, 1937 to January 1938 – Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. In 1938–1953 and 1956–1957 – Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from March 15, 1953 to July 15, 1956 this position was held by Nikolai Pegov, and Gorkin was deputy). Member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of the 1–8th convocations (1937–1974).

In 1957–1972 – Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, simultaneously in 1959–1961 – Chairman of the Central Audit Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He participated in a campaign for the rehabilitation of victims of personality cult.

He was a delegate to the 8–10, 15, 17–24 Congresses of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. A Candidate Member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1939–1952), a member of the Central Audit Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1952–1976).

Since 1972 – a personal pensioner.[9] He lived in Moscow. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.[10]

Family

The son, Yuri Alexandrovich Gorkin (born in 1921), a participant in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded orders and medals. He graduated with honors from the Moscow Higher Technical School named after Nikolai Bauman with a degree in radio electronics. Director of the Research Institute of Biotechnology, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor. Wife, Gorkina Nadezhda Nikolaevna, artist-architect, restorer.

Daughter, Olga Yuryevna Gorkina, journalist, art critic, television producer.

Daughter, Maya Aleksandrovna Gorkina (born in 1930) was married to an intelligence officer of the Main Intelligence Directorate, resident in Norway and the United Kingdom, Evgeny Ivanov (1926–1994), involved in a scandal with a lover of the British Minister of War, John Profumo, a 19-year-old dancer and Model Christine Keeler.

Awards

References
  1. "A Handbook on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Alexander Gorkin".
  2. Forensic Newspaper, August 1, 2011, No. 97, Page 15
  3. Handbook on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  4. Note by the Commission of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  5. Orenburg Region: People, Events, Facts
  6. Almanac "Russia. 20th Century"
  7. Orenburg in the Years of the First Five-Year Plans
  8. Ural Historical Encyclopedia
  9. State Archive of the Russian Federation. Fund: Alexander Gorkin
  10. Grave of Alexander Gorkin
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