Georgy Oppokov

Georgy Oppokov
People's Commissar for Justice of the RSFSR
In office
8 November  29 November 1918
Premier Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by None—position established
Succeeded by Pēteris Stučka
Personal details
Born 5 February 1888
Saratov, Russian Empire
Died 30 December 1938(1938-12-30) (aged 50)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Occupation Economist

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

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.[1]

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.

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