Boris Karlovich Pugo

Boris Karlovich Pugo, OAN ( lv, Boriss Pugo, russian: Борис Карлович Пуго; 19 February 1937 – 22 August 1991) was a Soviet Communist politician of Latvian origin.

Biography

Early life and education

Pugo was born in Kalinin, Russian SFSR (now Tver, Russia) into a family of Latvian communists who had left Latvia after anti-communist regime was established in Latvia in 1918 after the Communist side was defeated in the separatist war. His family returned to Latvia after the Soviet Union occupied and annexed it in 1940.

Pugo graduated from Riga Polytechnical Institute in 1960 and worked in various Komsomol, Communist Party and Soviet government positions, both in Latvia and Moscow.

Party career

Pugo served in various positions between 1960 and 1984 including the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Latvian SSR, a secretary of the Central Committee of Komsomol of the USSR, the First Secretary of the Riga City Committee of the Communist Party and chairman of the KGB in Latvia.

Pugo was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia from 14 April 1984 to 4 October 1989. Pugo also served as chairman of the Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991.

In 1982, Pugo provided the case against for a theft totaling 2,564 rubles of furniture, a telephone and other property from the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Communist Party which led to Luchansky being sentenced in 1983 to seven years in prison at the Jēkabpils zone prison.) born 8 February 1945, Tashkent), also known as ''Garry or Harry Luchansky'' or ''Garik Luchansky'' (russian: Гарик Лучанский), was the Commander of the student detachment in Latvia in 1969, then the Head of the department of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Latvia and the Chairman of the Audit Commission of the Komsomol of Latvia. At University of Latvia in 1975, Grigory Luchansky was a vice-rector for economic affairs and the youngest vice-rector in the Soviet Union. He has an equivalent to a PhD in Economics. After Luchansky's release from prison in 1987, he became a deputy director of the Latvian firm "Adazhi" ( lv, Ādaži) under Albert Kauls and then "Adazhimpex" ( lv, Ādažimpeks) which was formed during peristroika to facilitate trade between the Soviet Union and the west. He is president of Nordex which he co-founded at Vienna, Austria, on 26 February 1990 as "Nordex GmbH" and re-founded on 1 December 1993 as "Nordex Hemishe Products, Handels und Marketing Service Gesellschaft MBH" with his brother Veniamin Solomonovich Levin (russian: Вениамин Соломонович Левин; born 9 September 1946 Kurgan) who is the vice president of Nordex. To promote chemical production, trade and marketing, Nordex was established by three firms: "IFT-Industrial Financial & Trading SA" of Zurich, Switzerland; "Dalmex AG" of Zug, Switzerland; and the agricultural company "Adazi" of Latvia. Luchansky and Levin formed Nordex to supply Ukraine with oil from Kazakhstan in return for food. Lutchansky is very close to Aslan Abashidze and KGB agent in Italy Dimitry Naumov (russian: Дмитрий Наумов).

Between 1990 and 1991, Pugo was the Minister of Interior Affairs of the USSR.

August Coup and death

Pugo participated in the August Coup in 1991 and as the Minister of the Interior firmly supported measures to suppress opposition to the coup. After the coup had failed, Pugo committed suicide, anticipating arrest. He was contacted by the RSFSR prosecution for a meeting and he shot himself minutes after the phone call. His wife Valentina Ivanovna also committed suicide, although sources from the time were uncertain as to whether she killed herself or was killed by her husband.

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References

External links

Pugo Boris Karlovich biography
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