Prokopy Zubarev
Soviet politician (1886–1938) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prokopy Timofeevich Zubarev (Russian: Проко́пий Тимофе́евич Зу́барев; February 1886 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet politician and statesman. He was arrested, given a show trial, and executed as part of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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Prokopy Zubarev | |
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Прокопий Зубарев | |
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| Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture | |
| In office 1934 – March 1937 | |
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| Born | February 1886 |
| Died | 15 March 1938 (aged 52) Moscow |
| Cause of death | Execution |
| Citizenship | Soviet |
| Political party | CPSU |
Biography
Zubarev was born in to a peasant family of Russian[1] ethnicity and was a Bolshevik from 1904. From 1915 to 1917, he served in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I. He served in the Soviet of the Ufa Governorate in 1922.[2] In 1929, he served in the Northern Krai Soviet.
Prokopy Zubarev was one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" of 2-13 March 1938. He was accused of disrupting the food supply and having been a member of the czarist secret police.[3] On 13 March he was sentenced to death and was executed by NKVD firing squad two days later.[4] He was rehabilitated in 1965.
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