Alexandra Andreeva-Gorbunova

Alexandra Andreeva-Gorbunova

One of the leaders of the OGPU-NKVD, major of state security
Date of Birth: 01.01.1887

Content:
  1. Early Life and Revolutionary Activities
  2. Career in Intelligence and Security
  3. Dismissal, Arrest, and Imprisonment
  4. Posthumous Rehabilitation

Early Life and Revolutionary Activities

Born into a priestly family, the future security official was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) from 1905. After the 1917 Revolution, she worked in cultural and educational roles and as head of the statistics sub-department in the labor department of the Slobokda district executive committee in the Vyatka province.

Career in Intelligence and Security

In March 1919, she joined the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army as an assistant for assignments and an inspector-instructor. In October 1921, she transitioned to the security organs, serving as assistant to the head of the Special Department (SO) of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage (VChK-GPU) for investigations. She subsequently became deputy head of the SO-SPO under Genrikh Yagoda in the United State Political Directorate (OGPU-NKVD) of the USSR.

From 1936 to 1938, she served as an assistant to the Special Commissioner of the NKVD, overseeing the operations of the investigative detention centers of the OGPU-NKVD until April 1937.

Dismissal, Arrest, and Imprisonment

Citing illness, she was dismissed from the NKVD in June 1938. On December 5, 1938, she was arrested. On May 4, 1939, she was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to 15 years of imprisonment and five years of deprivation of rights. She died in the Inta labor camp on July 17, 1951.

Posthumous Rehabilitation

On June 29, 1957, she was posthumously rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court.

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