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1926 chairman of the Supreme Economic Council (SEC). 1930 chairman of the Gosplan of the USSR and vice-
chairman of the CPC and the PLDC of the USSR. 1934 chairman of the Commission of the Soviet Control at the
CPC of the USSR and first vice chairman of the CPC and the PLDC of the USSR. 1921-1922 candidate member of
the CC of the RCP (B). 1922-1923 member of the CC and the secretariat of the CC of the RCP (B). 1927 member
of the CC and the Politburo of the CPSU (B). In 1922-1923 and 1934-1935 member of the Orgburo of the CC.
Peters, Ia.Kh. (1886-1938). State and party figure. 1917-1919 member of the board and vice-chairman of the
All-Russian Far East Commission (AREC) and chairman of the Revolutionary Tribunal. 1920-1922 member of the
»Turkburo« and plenipotentiary representative of the AREC in Turkestan. Simultaneously, in 1921 member of
the Turkcommission. 1922 chairman of the Eastern Department of the State Political Administration, from 1923
on member of the board of the Joint State Political Administration. 1930-1934 chairman of the Moscow Control
Commission of the CPSU (B). Subjected to repression. Rehabilitated in 1956.
Raskolnikov, F. F. (real surname - Ilyin) (1892-1939). State and military figure, diplomat and writer. 1918
substitute of the People’s Commissar on Sea Affairs. 1919-1920 commander of the Volga-Caspian navy. 1920-
1921 commander of the Baltic navy. 1921-1923 plenipotentiary representative in Afghanistan. 1924-1928 head of
the Eastern Department (Secretariat) of the ECCI under the pseudonym of Petrov. 1930-1938 trade
representative in Estonia, Denmark and Bulgaria. 1938 recalled but stayed abroad because of threat of arrest
and protested against Stalin’s mass political repressions. Excluded from the party in his absence, treated as
»people’s enemy«, deprived of the Soviet citizenship, he was perhaps killed by order of Stalin. Rehabilitated in
1963.
Rinchino, Elbek-Dorzhi (1888-1938). Buryat national figure, active participant of the revolutionary and
partisan movement in Siberia. 1920 head of the Mongol-Tibetan Section of the Far Eastern Secretariat of the
ECCI. In April 1921 he arrived in Mongolia, participated in the revolutionary uprising and contributed to the
defeat of the anti-revolutionary troops of von Ungern-Steinbergs and Bakich (the »white guard generals«). 1925
after returning from Mongolia in 1925, he was sent to the Institute of Red Professors, Moscow. 1927 lecturer of
the Communist University of the Workers of the East. 1934 professor of the Faculty of political economy.
Subjected to repression. Rehabilitated in 1957.
Rudzutak, Ia. E. (1887-1938). State and party figure. 1920-1921 general secretary of the All-Russian Central
Council of Trade Unions (ARCCTU). Simultaneously in 1919-1921 member and chairman of the
Turkcommission, in March - October 1921 chairman of the Turkbiuro. 1922-1923 head of the Central Asian
Bureau of the CC of the RCP (B). 1923-1924 secretary of the CC of the RCP (B). 1924-1930 People’s Commissar
of Transport. 1926-1937 vice-chairman of the CPC and the PLDC of the USSR, simultaneously 1931-1934
chairman of the CCC of the CPSU (B) and People’s Commissar of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection (WPI)
of the USSR. 1920-1937 member of the CC of the party, 1926-1932 of the Politbiuro (candidate 1923-1926 and
1934-1937). Member of the Organizational Bureau (Orgbiuro) of the CC in 1921-1922 and 1923-1924 (candidate
in 1921 and 1922-1923). Subjected to repression. Rehabilitated in 1956.