Viktor Taratuta

Viktor Konstantinovich Taratuta (Russian: Виктор Константинович Таратута) (16 April 1881 – 13 May 1926) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet official.

Early life Viktor Taratuta was born in a middle-class family in Yelizavetgrad (Kropyvnytskyi) in the Kherson province of Ukraine. He was educated at a technical school in Odesa, became involved in revolutionary circles as a teenager, and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1898. He was arrested for the first time in June 1898, at the age of 17, and spent five months in prison in Odesa,

The dead man also had a 15 years brother, Aleksey, who met Lenin and Taratuta in Vyborg with his lawyers. According to one witness, the negotiations were going calmly until Taratuta suddenly threatened death on anyone who came between the Bolsheviks and the inheritance. The youth waived his claim on the money. |

Later career Taratuta emigrated in summer 1908, where Lenin appointed him secretary of the Bolsheviks' Foreign Bureau, and to France in 1909, where he joined the French Socialist Party. He returned to Russia in 1919, and ran the French section of Comintern. In 1921, he transferred to economic work. From 1924 until his death, he was head of the USSR Bank of Foreign Trade.