Tikhon Yurkin

Tikhon Yurkin
Тихон Юркин
Yurkin in 1930
Minister of Procurement of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
March 6, 1961 – 1962
Minister of Grain Products of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
September 5, 1960 – March 6, 1961
Preceded byFedor Kulakov
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Minister of Soviet Farms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
1954–1957
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
4th People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Soviet Farms of the Soviet Union
In office
July 22, 1937 – November 21, 1938
Preceded byNikolay Demchenko
Succeeded byPavel Lobanov
People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Soviet Farms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
September 1936 – August 1937
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byIvan Benediktov
1st People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Soviet Farms of the Soviet Union
In office
October 1, 1932 – April 4, 1934
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byMoisey Kalmanovich
Personal details
BornJune 29, 1898
Moscow, Russian Empire
DiedAugust 18 or August 19, 1986
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Resting placeKuntsevo Cemetery (Moscow City)
Political partyRussian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (since 1919)
AwardsOrder of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Medal "For Labour Valour"

Tikhon Alexandrovich Yurkin (29 June 1898 – 18 August 1986) was a Soviet statesman.

Biography

Yurkin was born on June 29, 1898 in the family of a water carrier. He was of Russian ethnicity.[1] Yurkin became a member of the Russian Communist Party from 1919. From 1911 he was a turner at the factories of Moscow and Petrograd; he then served in food detachments in Valuyki and Samara. Starting in 1922, he worked in various Soviet farms in towns such as Kropotkin and Armavir.[2]

In 1928–1930, he was the organizer and first director of the Soviet grain farm Gigant.[2] He then became the chairman of the Board of the All–Union Union of Agricultural Collectives of the Soviet Union in 1930.[3] In the same year, he became a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1931 Yurkin became Chairman of the State Association of Union Trusts of Grain Farms. From then until 1937, he moved between various People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Farms jobs.[4]

In the autumn of 1938, he was accused by Lavrentiy Beria of spying for the United States of America. Stalin did not agree with the accusations, but on November 21, 1938, Yurkin was removed from the post of People's Commissar "as having failed to do his job" and in the same year was removed from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[citation needed]

In 1939–1943, he was the director of the Soviet farm "May 1" in Balashikha. During the war, he met and began to live in a civil marriage with Lyudmila Ponomareva. He received a secondary education from the Kupyansk Agricultural College in 1948 as an external student.[1]

Between 1949 and 1969, Yurkin bounced between different ministeries within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; these included Minister of Soviet Farms and Minister of Procurement. In 1962, he became an adviser to the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and was later promoted to Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from the Novosibirsk Region.[1]

Yurkin died on August 18/19, 1986, and was buried at the Kuntsevo Cemetery.[5]

Personal life

Yurkin fathered four children - Yuri Yurkin, Olga Sumarokova, Evgenia Semyonova, and Eleonora Yurkina. He had four grandchildren, including Alexey Semyonov. He was also the great-uncle of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Ilya Ponomarev.

Awards

He was awarded four Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, and the Order of Friendship of Peoples.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d State Power of the Soviet Union. Supreme Authorities and Management and Their Leaders. 1923–1991. Historical and Biographical Reference Book. Moscow: Russian Political Encyclopedia. 1999. ISBN 5-8243-0014-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  2. ^ a b Tikhon Yurkin. Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union (1898–1991)
  3. ^ Alexander Kovalenya. Academician Ignatovsky
  4. ^ "Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union" (171) (News ed.). 1937: 1. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "ЮРКИН Тихон Александрович (1898 – 1986) — Moscow-Tombs" (in Russian). Retrieved 17 July 2023.