Vasily Zakharovich Yesin (Russian: Есин, Василий Захарович, 1888-1960) was a Soviet Russian revolutionary and government official. He was an electrician by profession.[1] Yesin joined the Bolshevik Party in 1913.[1] Between 1914 and 1915, Yesin worked on the Moscow–Kazan Railway.[2] Between 1915 and 1919, he was employed at military vehicle repair shops.[2]
In 1917 he was elected to the Moscow Soviet of Workers and Soldiers Deputies and the Moscow City Duma (representing the Blagusha-Lefortovo area).[2] He headed the Bolshevik list in the 10th District (Lefortovo) in the 1917 Moscow District Duma election.[3] Yesin was an active participant in the October Revolution.[1]
Yesin served at the front-line of the Russian Civil War 1919-1920.[2] He was a delegate at the 8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets held in December 1920, representing the soldiers of the Caucasus Front.[2] He was a member of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia (GOELRO) 1920-1921.[1]
Between 1921 and 1957 he worked in different government and economic institutions.[1] With a recommendation from Lenin, he was appointed to the Council of Labor and Defense in 1921.[1] As of 1923 he was the chairman of the Tractor Commission of GOSPLAN.[4] He worked for the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the RSFSR, heading the electrification division of the People's Commissariat (Elektrozem).[5][6]
In 1931 he graduated from the Electrotechnical Institute[2] In the 1930s he studied at the Moscow Institute for the Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture (MIMEA).[7] Between 1934 and 1937 he served as the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR.[2] Between 1937 and 1939 he worked on the construction of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition.[2] From 1939 to 1957 Yesin worked at the Teplokontrol trust[2]
Yesin retired in 1957[2] He died in 1960, and was he was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery alongside his wife Anna Georgieva Yesina (1893-1979).[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Vladimir Il'ich Lenin. Lenin - Collected Works, Vol. 45. Progress Publishers, 1970. pp. 624, 808
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Воспоминания о Владимире Ильиче Ленине, Vol. 3. Институт марксизма-ленинизма (Moscow, Russia). Гос. изд-во полит. лит-ры, 1961. p. 432
- ^ Список наших кандидатов, предложенных в гласные Районных Дум. Социал-демократ, September 24, 1917. p. 3
- ^ Takao Chizuko. The Origin of the Machine Tractor Station in the USSR: New Perspectives. Acta Slavica Iaponica, Issue 19, 2002. pp. 117-136
- ^ a b Соломон Кипнис. Новодевичий мемориал. Некрополь монастыря и кладбища. Litres, 2024. p. 378
- ^ Viktor Valentinovich Smurov. Свет над землей Костромской: страницы истории электрификации области. Kostroma, 2001. p. 110
- ^ Col. A.A. Tsetskov. On the 75th Anniversary of the Military Training Faculty of V.P. Goryachkin MSAU, in Military Thought, Vol. 15, Number 4. Voennaya mysl, 2006. p. 218