Ivan Kodatsky

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Kodatsky, from a 1936 book

Ivan Fedorovich Kodatsky (Russian: Иван Фёдорович Кодацкий; July 1, 1893 – October 30, 1937) was a Soviet politician.

Biography[]

Born in to a working-class family in Nikolaev, Kodatsky worked as a machinist from a young age and became active in illegal workers' circles.

He traveled to Petrograd in 1914 and work and in the same year joined the Bolsheviks and became an activist of the Vyborg Committee of tue RSDLP (b).^[1]

Kodatsky was arrested in January 1917 and then released after the February Revolution and took an active part in the October Revolution.

After the establishment of Soviet power he was appointed secretary of the People's Commissariat of Labor.

From April 1920 he was the head of communications of the Azov Sea. From September 1920, authorized by the Council of Labor and Defense of the RSFSR for the organization of fisheries and the export of fish and other products on the shores of the Black and Azov Seas. In 1921 he headed the fisheries department in Dagestan.^[2]

He was then sent to Petrograd was secretary of the Vyborg Committee of the All-Union Communist Party(b) took action against the United Opposition.

From 1928 deputy chairman, and from April 1929, Chairman of the Leningrad Regional Council of National Economy.

On January 10, 1930, Kodatsky was elected Chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad Regional Council, and from December 13, 1931,  to February 14, 1937, he was Chairman of the Leningrad City Council.^[1]

From 1925 to 1930 he was a candidate member and from 1930 to 1937 he was a member of the Central Committee of the VKP(b). He was also a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.^[2]

In January 1937 he was appointed head of the Main Directorate of Mechanical Engineering for Light Industry of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR.

In June 1937 he was arrested by the NKVD and was removed from the Central Committee. On October 29, 1937, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to capital punishment on charges of "participation in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization". Kodatsky was shot on October 30, 1937, buried at the Donskoy cemetery.^[3]

He was posthumously rehabilitated on March 14, 1956.

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