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Ivan Ivanovich
SIDOROV
1897–1938
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Soviet of Workers', Peasants' and Red Armymen's Deputies
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11 August 1937 – 3 November 1938
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Of peasant stock from the Moscow gubernia. As a fifteen-year-old boy he started working as an apprentice at the Kolomna Machine Building Factory where he worked as turner. In 1918 he joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and volunteered for the front. In the 1920s he worked as chairman of the volost Executive Committee, director of the financial section and deputy chairman of the District Executive Committee. At the beginning of the 1930s he is transferred to Moscow, first to head the section for the allocation of land plots and afterwards the directorate for house-building of the Moscow Soviet Executive Committee. His professionalism, efficiency and authority amongst the people were so high that after N.A. Bulganin's transfer he is elected to the post of chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet. The new chairman actively participated in the speeding up of the house-building programme, the completion of the second underground line and the execution of other measures which were drawn up in the General Plan for the reconstruction of Moscow. He rendered enormous help to district organisations in the electrification of villages around Moscow.
In October 1938 a shortage of vegetables and potatoes broke out because of unfavourable weather conditions in the vicinity of Moscow and some regions adjoining the capital. Complaints poured in at the Central Committee of the Communist Party and government. I.I. Sidorov, together with a group of Moscow leaders, was charged with "deliberately ignoring the needs of the workers and committing sabotage", arrested and executed in November 1938. Rehabilitated in 1955.
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