Background
Semyon Semyonovich Dukelsky was born on March 13, 1892.
Semyon Semyonovich Dukelsky was born on March 13, 1892.
He received an elementary education.
Participant of the 1st World War, the rank and file of the music team of the Moscow regiment.
In 1917-1918 he was an assistant to the head of the supply department of the Finnish Red Guard.
In 1918-1919 he was in administrative positions in the political organs of the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1919-1920 he served in the trophy commission of the 14th Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in the city of Odessa. Since 1920 he worked in the bodies of the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage and also in the United State Political Administration of the Ukrainian SSR.
Since 1930 he was the Deputy Head of the plenipotentiary representative office of the United State Political Administration for the Central Black Earth region, since 1934 he was the Head of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs in the Voronezh region.
In 1938-1939, the chairman of the USSR State Committee for Cinematography. In 1939-1942, People's Commissar of the USSR Navy, in 1943-1948, Deputy People's Commissar of Justice of the RSFSR.
In the 1930s, Dukelsky was involved in the fabrication of investigative cases and the organization of mass political repression in the Central Black Earth region and the Voronezh region