Matvei Shkiryatov

Matvei Shkiryatov
Матвей Шкирятов
Shkiryatov in 1938
Chairman of the Party Control Committee of CPSU
In office
16 October 1952 – 18 January 1954
Preceded byAndrei Andreyev
Succeeded byNikolai Shvernik (Vacant from 1954–1956)
Personal details
Born(1883-08-15)15 August 1883
Died18 January 1954(1954-01-18) (aged 70)
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis
CitizenshipSoviet Union
PartyRussian Communist Party (1906–1954)
Awards3 Orders of Lenin, Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
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Matvei Fyodorovich Shkiryatov (Russian: Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов; 15 August [O.S. 3 August] 1883 — 18 January 1954) was a Communist Party official and functionary who rose to power in the Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph Stalin. His entire career was spent imposing party discipline through the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Though far less well known than successive chiefs of the Soviet police, such as Nikolai Yezhov or Lavrentiy Beria, he was arguably as steeply involved as either of them in the repression during the Stalin years. Unlike them, he escaped arrest or public notoriety.