Background
Maccar Alfred Martynovich was born on February 26, 1899 in Rigas, Latvia.
Alfrede Maccars
Maccar Alfred Martynovich was born on February 26, 1899 in Rigas, Latvia.
He graduated from the Voronezh Cooperative Institute.
He worked as an instructor-technologist at the Aviation Plant No. 18; then as an employee of the Office of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs for the Voronezh Region and later as an employee of the regional cooperative of the dairy industry. An organizer and first chairman of the Voronezh Provincial Bureau of the Russian Communist Youth Union (October 1918 - March 1920).
In 1915, together with the “Richard Pole” works stuff (the «Tyazheks» enterprise), where he had been working as a turner, he was evacuated from Latvia to Voronezh. He led the youth underground during the seizure of Voronezh by a Cossack corps of general A.G. Shkuro. In 1921, he left the Communist Party and came back to Latvia, where he was repeatedly arrested by the authorities "for belonging to an illegal communist organization." In 1926, the embassy of the USSR in Latvia and the Central Committee of the All-Union Lenin Communist Youth Union secured his release from prison and relocation to the USSR