Biography of Moses Uritskogo Solomonovich

Uritsky Moses Solomonovich (02 (14) .01.1873 – 30.08.1918), leader of the revolutionary movement in Russia. Member RSDLP since 1898. Born to a merchant. Graduated from Law Faculty of Kiev University (1897). In the revolutionary movement since the early 90's. In 1899 he was arrested and exiled to Yakutsk province. After a 2-second Party Congress (1903) Menshevik. Member of the Revolution 1905 – 1907 in St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk. In 1906, he was arrested and exiled to Vologda, then in the Arkhangelsk Province. In 1914 he emigrated abroad. After the February Revolution of 1917 he returned to Petrograd, joined the group "Inter-District", with which was adopted by the Bolshevik Party on the 6 th Congress RSDLP (b), the congress elected a member of RSDLP (b). In October of 1917 a member of the Military Revolutionary Party center to lead an armed uprising, a member of the Petrograd Revolutionary Military Committee. After the triumph of the revolution Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then Commissioner-Russian Commission for the convening of the Constituent Assembly. In February 1918 a member of the Committee of Revolutionary Defence of Petrograd. At the conclusion of the Brest Peace in 1918 belonged to the "Left Communists". At the 7 th Congress of the RCP (b) the elected candidate member. Since March 1918 chairman of the Petrograd Cheka. Killed SR. Buried at the Champ de Mars.

Lit.: Volkov, PP, Gavrilov LN, first chairman of the Petrograd Cheka, L., 1968; Sovokin A., M. Uritsky in Sat: Eternal glory, MA, 1967.