Sergei Bessonov

Politician
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IntroPolitician
PlacesRussia
wasPolitician
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Birth6 August 1892, Kirzhach, Russia
Death11 September 1941Oryol, Russia (aged 49 years)
Star signLeo
Education
Institute of Red Professors
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Biography

Sergei Alexeyevich Bessonov (6 August 1892 - 11 September 1941) was a Soviet state, public and party activist and diplomat. He was one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites" of 2-13 March 1938. He was one of only three defendants who did not receive the death penalty. Sentenced to 15 years in prison, he was extrajudicially executed by the NKVD during Operation Barbarossa of the Eastern Front of World War II alongside Olga Kameneva, Christian Rakovsky and Maria Spiridonova in Oryol Oblast, see Medvedev Forest massacre.

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