Political life in Lysva in context of the Kabakov group case in the Urals
Gleb E. Konstantinov, Postgraduate Student
Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Perm, Russia, glkonst@rambler.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6735-020X
Abstract
The article is devoted to the local history of the political elite of the town of Lysva during the period of active personnel changes caused by the repressions against the nomenklatura workers in 1937—1939. Unlike the events at the level of regional party committees and regional executive committees, the events at the local level remain poorly studied. The article examines the consequences of accusing the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) I. D. Kabakov of creating a counterrevolutionary conspiracy of the Rights in the Urals for the representatives of the local elite of Lysva town — the first secretary of the Lysva Town Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) V. N. Kozlov and the chairman of the Lysva Town Council M. P. Shein. Based on archival investigative files, minutes of district party conference proceedings, plenary sessions of the Town Committee and documents of the Town Executive Committee, the analysis of the interaction of the local elites and Kabakov’s group is carried out. The picture of political life in Lysva in 1937—1939 and its relation to the events in the Sverdlovsk region is reconstructed. A number of previously unused archival documents dedicated to the local history of the town of Lysva are introduced into scientific circulation.
Keywords
I. D. Kabakov, Sverdlovsk regional council, archival and investigative case, Lysva Town Council, Lysva Town Committee, M. P. Shein, V. N. Kozlov.
For citation:
Konstantinov G. E. Political life in Lysva in context of the Kabakov group case in the Urals. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2025, no. 1 (53), pp. 143—156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2025.53.9.
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