Georgy Oppokov

Georgy Ippolitovich Oppokov (Russian: Гео́ргий Ипполи́тович Оппо́ков; also known as Afanasi Lomov) (1888–1938) was a prominent Bolshevik, Soviet politician, Left Communist, and subsequently a member of the Left Opposition and People's Commissar for Justice.

Georgy Oppokov
Oppokov in the 1930s
People's Commissar for Justice of the RSFSR
In office
8 November – 29 November 1918
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byNone—position established
Succeeded byPēteris Stučka
Personal details
Born5 February 1888
Saratov, Russian Empire
Died30 December 1938(1938-12-30) (aged 50)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)
OccupationEconomist

Oppokov was a Bolshevik candidate in the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election, being fielded in the Arkhangelsk constituency.[1]

In 1918 he voted against accepting the terms of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. Then in March 1918 he was ousted from the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy.[2]

Oppokov was arrested in June 1937 during the Great Purge, sentenced to death and shot on 30 December 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.

Notes
  1. Людмила Дмитриевна Попова; Архангельский областной краеведческий музей (2006). Мезень и Мезенский край в истории Отечества и Баренцева региона: сборник статей международной научно-практической конференции, Мезень, 7-9 февраля 2006 года. ОАО ИПП "Правда Севера". p. 56.
  2. Bolsheviks and Workers' Control by Maurice Brinton


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