Vasily Vasilyevich Polyakov (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Поляко́в; 1893,

Lyudinovo Lyudinovo (russian: Люди́ново) is a town and the administrative center of Lyudinovsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Lake Lompad formed by a dam on the Nepolot River, southwest of Kaluga, the administra ...

- 18 November 1937,

Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

) was a Soviet Russian politician.

Life

He began his career in the factories of

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, before working in

Kharkov Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

. He took part in the labour movement and became a member of the RSDLP in 1909, repeatedly being arrested and tried by the Tsarist authorities. After the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

of 1917 he worked for the party in the provinces of Bryansk and Kharkov. In Ukraine he appeared during the Ukrainian–Soviet War. In October 1922 he became a member of the "Pivdenmashtrestu" government in Kharkov and a member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the

Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...

. In September 1930 he was appointed People's Commissar of Justice and Attorney General of the USSR and

Prosecutor General In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...

of the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

. From June 1933 to 28 July 1935 he was People's Commissar of Utilities of the Ukrainian SSR and from 4 August 1935 to September 1937 the Permanent Representative of the RNA in the Communist Party of Ukraine. He was arrested and shot by the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

in September 1937, but was rehabilitated in 1956.

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* 1893 births 1937 deaths People from Lyudinovsky District People from Zhizdrinsky Uyezd Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) members Soviet justice ministers of Ukraine Members of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee General Prosecutors of Ukraine Red Guards (Russia) Great Purge victims from Russia Soviet rehabilitations {{USSR-politician-stub