Server Trupçu Explained

Server Qurtseit Trupçu (– 17 April 1938) was a Soviet Crimean Tatar politician who served as Secretary of the Crimean Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) and a NKVD troika for a few months in 1937 before he was arrested and executed as part of the Great Purge.

Biography

Server Qurtseit Trupçu was born around 1908, in the Crimean village of Dereköy (now). From 1919 to 1924, he worked as a labourer, including as a cattle herder and orphanage worker around the Yalta area. In 1924, he joined the Komsomol.

From 1926 to 1927, Trupçu worked as an instructor and organiser of the Komsomol district committee in Yalta. In 1928, he joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik). Afterwards, he continued to work as an instructor and organiser of the Komsomol, but moved to the cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol.

In 1931, Trupçu was placed in charge of the Personnel Department of the Crimean Regional Committee. From 1932 to 1934, he studied at the Institute of Red Professors in Moscow, and then taught at the institute for three years.

In 1937, Trupçu was chosen as Secretary of the Crimean Regional Committee. In this time, he was also part of an NKVD troika,^[1] and an active participant in the Great Purge,^[2] as well as the advancement of Crimean culture (for example, the Crimean State Opera and Ballet Theatre).^[3]

In September 1937, however, Trupçu was removed from office. Two months later, he was arrested. On 5 March 1938, he was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.^[4] On 17 April 1938, he was executed in Simferopol.

On 22 March 1958, he was rehabilitated due to a lack of corpus delicti.^[5]

Family

Trupçu's sister was, a Crimean Tatar singer and actress who was deported to Uzbekistan in 1944.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 9 January 2022 . Документ:Составы троек в 1937−1938 годах . Document: Lineups of the Troikas from 1937 to 1938 . 22 June 2022 . Personnel Composition of the State Security Organs of the USSR, 1935−1939.
2. Web site: СТАЛИНСКИЙ ПЛАН ПО УНИЧТОЖЕНИЮ НАРОДА: Подготовка и реализация приказа НКВД № 00447 "Об операции по репрессированию бывших кулаков, уголовников и других антисоветских элементов" . STALIN'S PLAN TO DESTROY THE PEOPLE: Preparation and implementation of NKVD order No. 00447 "On the operation to repress former kulaks, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements" . 22 June 2022 . Almanac of Russia in the 20th Century . ru.
3. Web site: Zaatov . Ismet . 4 September 2015 . Крымский государственный татарский театр оперы и балета 1937-1938 гг. (опыт создания) . The Crimean State Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre 1937-1938 (The Creation Experience) . 22 June 2022 . Voice of Crimea . ru.
4. Web site: АП РФ, оп.24, дело 415, лист 159 . AP RF, op. 24, case 415, page 159 . 22 June 2022 . Stalin's Execution Lists . ru . 3 May 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170503124328/http://stalin.memo.ru/regions/rp43_1.htm . dead .
5. Web site: Именной указатель. П - Я . Name index: P-Z . 22 June 2022 . Historic Material . ru.
6. Book: Ursu, Dmytro . Деятели крымскотатарской культуры (1921–1944 гг.) . Dolya . 1999 . Simferopol . Figures of Crimean Tatar Culture (1921-1944).