Konstantin Gey

Konstantin Gey
Константин Гей
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
In office
3 January 1930 – 18 January 1932
Preceded byYan Gamarnik
Succeeded byNikolai Gikalo
Personal details
Born1896
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died25 February 1939(1939-02-25) (aged 42–43)
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Resting placeDonskoye Cemetery
NationalitySoviet
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party (b) (1916-1937)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Byelorussia

Konstantin Veniaminovich Gey (Russian: Константи́н Вениами́нович Гей; 1896 – February 25, 1939) was a Russian Communist Party functionary of Estonian origin, a participant in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Soviet politician.[1][failed verification] Gey was instrumental in securing Soviet control in the city of Pskov and was a candidate member of the Bolshevik Central Committee from 1924 until 1934. He was arrested in 1938 and executed by shooting in 1939. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.

  1. ^ "Konstantin Gey/Hanbook of the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21.