Nikolai Pavlovich Shcherbakov

He was born on July 24, 1876, in the village of Labazy, Buzuluksky Uyezd, Samara Governorate, into the family of a priest.

He graduated from the Samara Theological Seminary.

He married Seraphima Dmitrievna and was ordained as a priest.

In 1932, he was arrested by the OGPU on suspicion of speculation and released after eight days. At the time of his arrest, he was serving as the rector of a church in the city of Chapayevsk, Kuybyshev Region.

On March 29, 1935, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Syzran prison. He was involved in the group case "The case of priests Shcherbakov N.P., Konakov P.P., and others." Among the charges brought against him were: "leading a counter-revolutionary group, counter-revolutionary propaganda advocating the overthrow of Soviet power, and talks about the necessity of assassinating Stalin."

On June 7, 1935, he was sentenced by the Special Meeting of the NKVD USSR to five years of exile in Kazakhstan. He served his exile in the city of Semipalatinsk, working as an accountant in a pharmaceutical school.

On November 23, 1937, he was arrested in Semipalatinsk on charges of "counter-revolutionary activity."

During interrogation, when the investigator demanded a confession of conducting anti-Soviet agitation, he replied: "No, I do not admit to this. Living in Semipalatinsk as an exile, I have never conducted any anti-Soviet agitation. I have nothing else to say."

From the indictment:

"Shcherbakov, living in the city of Semipalatinsk as an exile, engaged in counter-revolutionary activities. He slandered the leaders of the party, the government, and Soviet power, spread provocative rumors about the USSR Constitution, and praised the bourgeois system. He expressed clear dissatisfaction with the pricing policies on consumer goods, interpreting them in a counter-revolutionary manner. He spread counter-revolutionary sympathies towards the kulaks."

On November 25, 1937, he was sentenced to death by the troika of the NKVD of the East Kazakhstan Region.

He was executed on November 28, 1937, at two o'clock in the morning.

On April 29, 1989, he was rehabilitated by the Prosecutor's Office of the Semipalatinsk Region for the 1937 repressions, and on May 19 of the same year, he was rehabilitated by the Prosecutor's Office of the Kuybyshev Region for the 1935 repressions.