Mikhail Ryumin was an important person in the Ministry of State Security in the last Stalin years. Several high-profile political cases are associated with his name. Ryumin was a typical representative of the totalitarian system. After Khrushchev came to power, he was shot for past crimes.
Early years
Future functionary of the MGB Ryumin Mikhail Dmitrievich was born on September 1, 1913 in the village of Kabanye, Perm province, on the territory of the modern Kurgan region. His father was a middle-class peasant. The boy graduated from an eight-year school. In 1929, he began working as an accountant in the nearest agricultural artel. Then he managed to transfer to the regional communications department, where he became an accountant.
In 1931, Ryumin Mikhail Dmitrievich moved to Sverdlovsk, where he received a similar position. Simultaneously with work, he devoted much time to participation in the Komsomol movement. In 1935, the young man was drafted into the army. Ryumin ended up at the headquarters of the Ural Military District, where he served as a private. After demobilization, the accountant returned to his usual job in SverdlovskRegional communications department.
Moving to Moscow
In 1937, Ryumin Mikhail Dmitrievich faced mortal danger. The accountant was accused of misappropriation of money and excessive patronage of his boss. This man was arrested the day before and declared an enemy of the people. In these extraordinary circumstances, Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin made the only decision that could save him from imprisonment in the Gulag. The accountant hastily moved to Moscow, where, after a month of ordeals, he found a job in the People's Commissariat for Water Transport.
After the promotion and until the outbreak of war, Ryumin served as head of the financial department in the management of the canal between Moscow and the Volga. Under these circumstances, in 1939, he managed to obtain the status of a candidate member of the party.
Abakumov's henchman
When the war began, Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin did not go to the front, but to the Higher School of the NKVD. By September, he had already completed the forced course, after which he became an investigator in the NKVD of the Arkhangelsk military district. At the same time, Ryumin ended up not just in the authorities, but in the Special Department of the department. In the conditions of war and constant staff turnover, he managed to make a relatively quick career. In 1941, Ryumin was a junior lieutenant of state security, and in 1944 he was already a major.
It was during the war that the former accountant finally joined the party. However, another circumstance became a decisive turn in his fate. The functionary was noticed by counterintelligence officer Viktor Abakumov. Since then Ryumin Mikhail Dmitrievich has becomehis protege. Abakumov made him a senior investigator in SMERSH. This couple made synchronized jerks while climbing the corporate ladder. When in 1946 Abakumov received the post of Minister of State Security of the USSR, Ryumin followed him and ended up in the chair of a deputy in one of the departments of the 3rd Main Directorate of the MGB.
Special Investigator
Since Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin enjoyed the special trust of Abakumov, the minister trusted him with the most delicate matters. In 1948, Stalin instructed the MGB to start an investigation into the case, which was later called "Marshal". Within its framework, the documents necessary for the arrest of Georgy Zhukov were prepared. Ryumin directly led the case of the arrested Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Braiko. Thanks to the beatings, he managed to obtain the necessary testimony from the defendant.
In the future, Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin (1913–1954) took part in interrogations in the Leningrad case. Then he personally beat the former chairman of the city executive committee Solovyov. This episode got into the case, which was later brought against Ryumin himself. In 1954, fearing execution, the functionary blamed Stalin for his crimes, explaining that it was he who gave instructions to beat Solovyov.
The denunciation of Abakumov
In May 1951, the Personnel Department of the MGB drew attention to the incorrect information about relatives that Ryumin gave before getting into the authorities. In the Soviet system of that time, such attention meantmortal danger. In addition, once the investigator foolishly forgot a folder with an important case in public transport. He began to receive more and more reprimands.
Against this hopeless background, Ryumin went on the offensive. He wrote a statement to the Central Committee of the party, which was actually a denunciation of his own boss, Minister Viktor Abakumov. The paper was at the top exactly at the moment when Stalin decided to carry out another personnel purge in the law enforcement agencies. As a result, Abakumov was repressed. Ryumin's maneuver proved to be his temporary success. He became a colonel, and in October 1951 he received the post of Deputy Minister of State Security of the USSR.
Arrest and execution
In 1951-1953 Ryumin Mikhail Dmitrievich, whose biography is an example of a typical nomenklatura, was one of Stalin's main favorites. Other participants in the hardware struggle could not forgive him for this. Among the enemies of Ryumin was Lavrenty Beria. On March 5, 1953, Stalin died, and the whole old system collapsed. Now yesterday's favorite could be under attack from his opponents. For many nominees of the leader, this is exactly how the further biography developed. Mikhail Ryumin was one of the first victims of the reaction.
Beria launched a case against the Deputy Minister of the MGB. Ryumin was accused of wrecking activities against the Soviet state. The investigation recognized him as a "hidden enemy of the USSR." Treason and espionage could only lead to one outcome. However, the courtsomewhat slowed down due to the fact that its main initiator Beria himself was arrested and later shot. Confusion reigned within the Soviet elite. Changes for a short period hid Ryumin in the shadows. Nevertheless, after some time, the investigation returned to his case. The new group of nomenklatura, which came to power, was not going to leave alive some of the executioners of the Stalinist era, on whom, moreover, many mistakes and sins could be blamed. July 22, 1954 Mikhail Ryumin was shot. Unlike the victims of Stalin's repressions, he was never rehabilitated.
