DIRECTOR OF THE STATE MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF THE UKRAINIAN SSR POLESHKO H. YA. AND HIS FIELD № 1/N OF THE MILITARY COMISSAR OF THE 2ND OF DON RIFLE DIVISION OF THE MILITARY COMMAND (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVE NMUH)

Abstract

This paper is the first to suggest Heorhiy Yakovych Poleshko’s extended biography, the director of the State Historical Museum of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1948–1950s. Its is created on the basis of the NMIU funds, the Scientific Archive of the Museum in particular.Year 2018 marks the 68th of Heorhiy Poleshko’s year of rememberance, who lived a vivid life during which he was a teacher, commissar and chekist, communist party figure, cooperator, scientist, lecturer, and themuseum director. He devoted his life to the service of the communist ideology and died in the Stalin era. Poleshko fought against the national liberation movements in Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century. The scientific record introduces the field book of the military commissar of the Second Don Rifle Division, in which served H. Poleshko in 1920. To this diary he noted down the orders, commands, letters and instructions, which is published in this article.
Keywords: the National Museum of Ukrainian History, Scientific Archive of the NMIU, Heorhiy Ya. Poleshko, Military Commissar, Second Don Rifle Division, field Book, order