Nikolai Demchenko

Nikolai Nesterovich Demchenko (21 May 1896 – 30 October 1937) was a Ukrainian communist and Soviet politician.[1]

He was born in Lebedyn, Kharkov Governorate and became a member of the Bolshevik Party in 1916. He received the Order of Lenin on 20 December 1935.[2] During the Great Purge, he was arrested on 22 July 1937, sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 29 October 1937 and executed by firing squad the next day. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was rehabilitated.[3]

Preceded by
New office		 First Secretary of the Kiev Regional Committee
1932–1934		 Succeeded by
Pavel Postyshev

References
  1. "02381".
  2. "Демченко Николай Нестерович".
  3. "Архив Александра Н. Яковлева - Альманах "Россия. ХХ век" - Биографический словарь".
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