Zhdanov A.A. the 1st secretary of the regional party committee in 1934-44

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ZHDANOV Andrey Alexandrovich (1896-1948), statesman and party worker, colonel-general (1944). He was educated in Petrovsko-Razumovskaya agricultural academy and Moscow commercial institute (did not graduate). A member of Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party since 1912. In 1916 he was summoned for military service, after graduating from warrant officers school (1917) he was assigned to 139th alternate infantry regiment in the town of Shadrinsk, where he carried on revolutionary propaganda. Since 1918 he had been performing military, party and Soviet work. In 1924-34, a secretary of Nizhegorodsky provincial party committee (Gorky territorial party committee) of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist). Candidate member of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist) since 1925, member of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist) since 1930, secretary of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist) since 1934, candidate member of Political Bureau of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist) since 1935, member of Political Bureau of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist) since 1939, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1934-40). He was also a secretary of Leningrad regional party committee and city party committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist) (1934-44). Zhdanov belonged to I.V. Stalin's immediate political surrounding, he was directly involved in the mass repressions of the 1930s-40s in Leningrad. He was one of the city defence organizers in 1941-44, a member of Military Soviet of Leningrad front-line. In the fall of 1944 he conducted negotiations with the government of Finland on the disengagement of the latter. Since 1944 Zhdanov had been living in Moscow, working for the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (bolshevist), where he was in charge of art and literature. His name is associated with intelligentsia persecution which began in 1946 (including A.A. Akhmatova and M.M. Zoshchenko). Until 1989 the name of Zhdanov had been attributed to the number of Leningrad sites, including a district (today Primorsky) and Leningrad State University.

References: Борисов С. Б. Андрей Александрович Жданов: Опыт полит. биографии. Шадринск, 1998.

A. Y. Chistyakov. Akhmatova Anna Andreevna
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
Zhdanov Andrey Alexandrovich
Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
Борисов С. Б. Андрей Александрович Жданов: Опыт полит. биогр. Шадринск, 1998 Leningrad Front
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