Background
Zatonskii, Vladimir was born in 1888.
Zatonskii, Vladimir was born in 1888.
Graduated from Kiev University, 1912.
Joined the Bolsheviks, 1917. Active in establishing communist rule in the Ukraine. Took part in the Civil War.
Head of the political administration of the Red Ukrainian Armed Forces, 1924-1925, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party in the Ukraine, 1925. Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR, 1933-1938. Arrested and disappeared during Stalin’s purges.
Presumably shot, or died in the Gulag.