Oskar Ryvkin

Oscar Lvovich Ryvkin (Russian: Оскар Львович Рывкин; 4 January 1899 – 7 August 1937) also known by his alias O. Skar was a Soviet politician who served in various positions including First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, First Secretary of the Krasnodar City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and a member of the Central Control Commission.

Early life and education Oscar Ryvkin was born on January 4, 1899, to a Jewish family in Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire. When he was young, Ryvkin worked as a student in a pharmacy and in a printing house. He graduated from the Institute of Red Professors in 1934.

Political career Ryvkin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik) in March 1917. After the February Revolution, he joined the Red Guards as a fighter and served as the Secretary of the Petrograd Socialist Union of Workers' Youth. At the time, he was also a member of the editorial board of the first youth Bolshevik magazine, Young Proletarian. Members of the Presidium of the First All-Russian Congress of Unions of Workers and Peasants (from left to right): Mikhail Dugachev, M. Akhmanov, P. Forvin, Lazar Shatskin, Aleksandr Bezymensky, Yefim Tsetlin, Oscar Ryvkin, Yevgenia Herr Ryvkin directly participated in the October Revolution in Petrograd as the commander of a combat detachment. Ryvkin also participated in the Russian Civil War as an ordinary soldier. At the 1st Congress of the Komsomol, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, then became the First Chairman of the Central Committee, and then served as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol which made him the de facto leader of the Komsomol. In 1922, he worked at the People's Commissariat for Education.

Ryvkin was a delegate to the first four Congresses of the Komsomol, as well as to the Second Congress of the Young Communist International.

From 1927 to 1934, Oscar Ryvkin was a member of the Central Control Commission and the Rabkrin. After graduating from the Institute of Red Professors in 1934, Ryvkin served as the First Secretary of the Krasnodar City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. However, on January 14, 1937, Oscar Ryvkin was arrested and nearly seven months later was executed by a firing squad on August 7, 1937. He was posthumously rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in March 1956. Honorary Members of the Komsomol. Ryvkin is sitting on right side of the front row.

Legacy A sculpture dedicated to Oscar Ryvkin along with a memorial plaque can be found in Krasnodar.