Maksim Kirovich Ammosov

Maksim Kirovich Ammosov — a Soviet state and party figure, an active participant in the struggle to establish Soviet power in Yakutia. He was born to Anastasia Leontyevna and Kir Vasilyevich Ammosov. Because of his parents' poverty, from the age of four he was raised by his uncle D. M. Ammosov. He graduated from the Yakut State School, the Yakut Teacher's Seminary, and the Institute of Red Professorship. 

 

He was involved in the revolutionary movement from 1916 and was a Bolshevik from 1917. In March 1917 he became secretary of the executive bureau of the Yakut Committee of Public Safety. From March 1918 to March 1920 he was in exile in Siberia, where he worked in underground organizations in Tomsk, Irkutsk, and Chelyabinsk. Together with Platon Oyunsky and Isidor Barakhov he played a decisive role in the formation of the Yakut ASSR and, accordingly, in the establishment of Yakutia's statehood in April 1922. From June 1925 to August 1928 he headed the Council of People's Commissars of the Yakut ASSR, and from March 1927 to August 1928 he served as chairman of the Central Executive Committee. 

 

He was arrested on November 16, 1937 in the city of Frunze. He was executed by shooting on July 28, 1938 in Moscow. He was posthumously rehabilitated on April 28, 1956 by the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.