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Artemic Bagratovich Khalatov | |
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Артемий Багратович Халатов | |
 Khalatov, 7 November 1919 at the celebrations of the second anniversary of theOctober Revolution | |
| Head of the State Publishing House | |
| In office 1927–1932 | |
| Preceded by | Otto Schmidt |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Tomsky |
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| Born | Artashes Khalatiants 27 April 1894 Baku,Russian Empire |
| Died | 27 October 1937 (aged 43) Moscow,Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow Commercial Institute |
| Profession | Publisher, economist |
Artemic (Artashes) Bagratovich Khalatov (Russian: Артемий Багратович Халатов; 15 (27) April 1894 – 26 September 1937[1] or 27 October 1938[2])(sources differ) was aBolshevik revolutionary andSoviet politician who was the director of the Soviet Union'sState Publishing House, from 1927 to 1932. He was executed during theGreat Purge.[1]
Khalatov was bornArtashes Khalatiants inBaku. Although official biographies described him as coming from a working-class background, more recent research has shown that he was born into the family of a wealthyArmenian merchant.[1] He was a student in theMoscow Commercial Institute and joined a Marxist circle while studying. After meetingAnastas Mikoyan he became involved in revolutionary activities.
After theFebruary Revolution of March 1917, Khalatov became deputy chairman of the Moscow City Food Committee. From October 26, 1917 he served as Deputy Extraordinary Commissioner, from the beginning of 1918, as Moscow Extraordinary Commissioner for Food and Transport. During the Civil War of 1917-1923 he was in leading positions in the People's Commissariat of Food and the Main Directorate for the supply of the army. He was sent to Ukraine in order to negotiate withPavlo Skoropadskyi (Hetman of Ukraine in 1918) for food supplies, but was arrested and then returned to theRSFSR. He became a member of theAll-Russian Central Executive Committee and a permanent member of the Moscow City Council.
From to 1928 he was Chairman of theCommission for the Improvement of the Life of Scientists [ru] (Tsentral'naya komissiya po uluchsheniyu byta uchyonikh - TSEKUBU) under the Councils of People's Commissars of the RSFSR and theUSSR and resolved issues relating to the supply of scientists. From 1922 he served as a member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Railways, and in 1927, he became a member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Education, chairman of the board of the State Publishing House and of its successor, theOGIZ. He played a significant role in the development of censorship and the ideologization of Soviet literature.[1]
From 1935 to 1937 Khalatov was head of the Central Committee of theAll Union Society of Inventors [ru]. He actively participated in theGreat Purge of 1936-1938 by publishing defamatory articles about various groups of people who were already the focus of the Soviet state security (NKVD). During this period he wrote and published works on political economy as well. However, his loyalty to the party line did not prevent him from falling victim to the purge. In 1937 Khalatov was expelled from the Communist Party. Arrested in 1938, he was executed on October 27, 1938. Artemic Khalatov was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.[2]
His body is buried at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow.
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