Averky Aristov
Averky Borisovich Aristov () (4 November 1903 – 11 July 1973) was a Soviet politician and diplomat. Biography Born at Krasny Yar in Astrakhan Governorate, he was the son of a fisherman, working for a fishery during 1912 - 1919. In 1919 he joined the Komsomol and 1921 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He served in the Red Army and worked as a metallurgist until 1940, when he began a rapid rise as a communist party official, filling posts left vacant by the mass arrests during the Great Purge. In 1940-46, he was a party secretary of the Sverdlovsk, Kemerovo and Krasnoyarsk regions. He was First Secretary of the Chelyabinsk Regional Party committee in 1946-50, and of the Krasnoyarsk regional party committee in 1950-52. In October 1952, during the 19th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, the last congress during the lifetime of Joseph Stalin, Aristov was transferred to Moscow, and appointed a member of the Presidium and a secretary of the Central Committee(one of ten), replacing Georgy Malenkov as the secretary in charge of party appointments. This was the post that Nikolai Yezhov held in 1936, before taking charge of the NKVD