Background
ACHKANOV, Grigoriy was born in 1887 in Odessa. Son of a sailor.
ACHKANOV, Grigoriy was born in 1887 in Odessa. Son of a sailor.
From 1906 member, Odessa City Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. From 1917 Presidium member, Odessa Soviet. Helped organize All-Russian Rivermen and Seamen’s Union.
January 1918 member, Odessa Revol Committee. Also member, Revol Committee, Central Executive Committee of Rumanian Front, Black-Sea Fleet and Odessa Oblast Soviet. Then Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs, Odessa Council of People's Commissar.
1921-1923 Bureau member, Don Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Collegium member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Means of Communication. Deputy chairman, Central Committee, Transport Workers’ Union.
Presidium member, All-Russian Economic Council. 1926 member, Centr Council, Trade-Union International (Profintern). From 1931 deputy head, Soviet Merchant Fleet.
Author of a number of works on revol movement in Odessa. Arrested by State Security organs.
Communist Party member from 1904.