Tichon Jurkin

Tikhon Alexandrovich Yurkin (; 29 June 1898 – 18 August 1986) was a Soviet bureaucrat.

Biography Yurkin was born on 29 June 1898 in the family of a water carrier. He was of Russian ethnicity.

In 1928–1930, he was the organizer and first director of the Soviet grain farm Gigant. In the same year, he became a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1931 Yurkin became Chairman of the State Association of Union Trusts of Grain Farms. From then until 1937, he moved between various People's Commissar of Grain and Livestock Farms jobs.

In the autumn of 1938, he was accused by Lavrentiy Beria of spying for the United States. Stalin did not agree with the accusations, but on 21 November 1938, Yurkin was removed from the post of People's Commissar "as having failed to do his job" and in the same year was removed from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1939–1943, he was the director of the Soviet farm "May 1" in Balashikha. During the war, he met and began to live in a civil marriage with Lyudmila Ponomareva. He received a secondary education from the Kupyansk Agricultural College in 1948 as an external student.

Personal life

Yurkin fathered four children - Yuri Yurkin, Olga Sumarokova, Evgenia Semyonova, and Eleonora Yurkina. He had four grandchildren, including Alexey Semyonov. He was also the great-uncle of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Ilya Ponomarev.

Awards He was awarded four Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, and the Order of Friendship of Peoples.