STRUCTURE AND STAFF OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE ECONOMIC FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT AND INTERNAL PRISON OF THE NKGB-MDB IN TERNOPIL REGION, IN 1944 – 1946

Abstract

In the article, based on historical original sources and monographs, there has been analyzed the structure and staff of the administrative economic financial department and the internal prison of the NKGB-MDB in Ternopil region, in 1944 – 1946, and there has been characterized their structural transformation. The purpose of the research is to outline the structure and its transformation, to describe the staff composition of the Administative Economic Financial Department (AEFD) and the internal prison of the NKGB-MDB in Ternopil region, in 1944 – 1946. The research methodology is based on the principles of objectivity and historicism. A historical comparative method has been applied, which made it possible to trace and compare the structure of the NKGB-MDB at all stages of transformation and development, as well as methods of statistics, analysis and synthesis, which served for quantitative and qualitative characterization of personnel and systematization of the obtained results. The scientific novelty is that for the first time the study has been carried out on the structure and equipment of the AGFS and the internal prison of the NKGB-MDB in Ternopil region, in 1944 – 1946. The Conclusion. The authors classify the chronological framework of the research into three stages, distinguishing regularities in quantitative and qualitative composition. At the first stage, according to two staff lists of 1944, there was a shortage of qualified personnel in the structures of the NKGB in Ternopil region, and the departments consisted of the Russians. Hence, according to the staff list of May of 1944, there were 37 positions vacant, and in 6 departments out of 9, the Russians prevailed, in 1 – the Ukrainians, and in two more departments there were no emploees at all. According to the staff list of November of 1944, the staff improved, as there were 35 vacancies. The Russians predominated in 5 out of 9 departments, the Ukrainians prevailed in 2 departments, and there were no employees in another 2 departments, i.e. the number of departments dominated by the Ukrainians proliferated. At the second stage, according to the staff list of 1945, the number of vacant positions decreased to 23, the Russians prevailed in five departments out of nine, the Ukrainians predominated in two, and there were no employees in another 2 departments. At the third stage, after the reform, according to the staff list of 1946, the number of vacant positions increased to 36. The Russians prevailed in 7 departments out of 9, the Ukrainians – in two. There were new departments which were not recorded in the previous staff lists: the Department of Military and Economic Support, Chortkiv inter-district internal prison and Kremenets inter-district internal prison. It has been found that the departments and branches were staffed, for the most part, by the Russians, by transferring them to Ternopil region from the Asian and Far Eastern regions of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), and by the Ukrainians, who worked in the eastern regions of the Ukrainian SSR or the RSFSR. A low educational level of the staff was noted, in the internal prison only medical employees had a secondary education certificate, the majority of employees finished only four – eight grades of school.