Prokopy Zubarev | |
Native Name: | Прокопий Зубарев |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Order1: | Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture |
Term Start1: | 1934 |
Term End1: | March 1937 |
Birth Date: | February 1886 |
Death Place: | Moscow |
Death Cause: | Execution |
Party: | CPSU |
Citizenship: | Soviet |
Prokopy Timofeevich Zubarev (ru|Проко́пий Тимофе́евич Зу́барев; February 1886 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet politician and statesman. He was purged and executed during the "anti-Trotskyist" repressions of Stalin.
Zubarev was born in to a peasant family of Russian[1] ethnicity and was a Bolshevik from 1904. From 1915 to 1917, he served in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I. He served in the Soviet of the Ufa Governorate in 1922.[2] In 1929, he served in the Northern Krai Soviet.
Prokopy Zubarev was one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" of 2-13 March 1938. He was accused of disrupting the food supply and having been a member of the czarist secret police.[3] On 13 March 1938 he was sentenced to death and on 15 March 1938 he was executed by the NKVD via firing squad.[4] He was rehabilitated in 1965.