Background
MEKHONOSHIN, Konstantin was born on October 30, 1889 in what is now Aleksandrovsk. Son of a teacher.
MEKHONOSHIN, Konstantin was born on October 30, 1889 in what is now Aleksandrovsk. Son of a teacher.
1914 graduate Physics and Mathematics Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
From 1906 active in revol movement. 1912, still a student, twice arrested and exiled from Saint St. Petersburg. 1914-1915 with Caspian Ichthyological Marine Expedition.
1915-1917 life-guard with Grenadier Regt in Petrograd. After 1917 February Revol member, Petrograd Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee and member of its Military Commission. Member, All-Russian Bureau of Front and Rear Military Organizations, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks).
Member, Petrograd Soviet. July 1917 arrested for Bolshevik armed demonstration against Provisional Government and imprisoned until October. During préparations for October Coup member, Petrograd Military Revol Committee.
Member, All-Russian Central Executive Committee of 1917 convocation. From 3 December 1917 Assistant People's Commissar for Military Affairs. December 1917—September 1918 Collegium member, People's Commissariat of Military Affairs.
From 6 January 1918 member, Extraordinary Military Staff to Defend Soviet Regime Against Counterrevolution. From 3 February 1918 member, Board for Mustering and Organizing the Red Army. From 21 February 1918 member, Extraordinary Staff of Petrograd Military district.
Member, Committee for Revol Defense of Petrograd. From 18 March 1918 member, Higher Military Council. 13 June—13 July 1918 member, Revol Military Council to Coordinate Operations against the Mutiny of the Czechoslovak Corps.
13 July—19 August 1918 member, Revol Military Council, Eastern Front. 2 September 1918-1914 July 1919 member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Revol Military Council. 3 October 1918-1926 January 1919 chairman, Revol Military Council of Southern Front.
9 February—13 March 1919 chairman, Revol Military Council of Caspian—Caucasian Front. 20 March—10 June 1919 chairman, Revol Military Council of 11th Separate Army. 15 June—13 July 1919 member, Revol Military Council of Southern Front.
July—December 1919 head, Polit Department of Internal Defense. 31 December 1919-1927 May 1920 member, Revol Military Council of 11th Army on Southeastern Front. 20 June—31 December 1920 chairman, Revol Military Council of 3rd Army on Western Front.
1921 Collegium member, Main Fisheries Trust. 1921-1926 deputy chief, then chief of General Military Training. Chairman, Higher Council for Physical Training and Sport.
Chairman, Red Sports International. 1926-1927 Soviet military attache in Poland. 1928 deputy chairman.
Defense Section, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee. Presidium member, Ccntr Council, Social for the Promotion of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Aviation, Chemical and Defense Indiana. 1929-1931 Presidium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee and chairman of its Defense Section.
1931-1934 Collegium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs and USSRPop Commissariat of Communications. From 1934 director, All-Union Research Institute of Oceanography and Marine Economy. November 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Communist Party member from 1913.