«He knows operational and investigative work well...»: to the biography of Soviet intelligence officer P. N. Basyuk
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-3-73-82
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Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the biography of the administrative and operational employee of the Soviet security agencies Pyotr Nikitich Basyuk, whose many years of service took place in Western Siberia during the Stalinist era. The basis of the study is a set of unpublished official sources, which are part of three personal files of the hero of the publication, stored in the State Archives of the Novosibirsk Region. The study of these documents through a methodological prism combining anthropological and systemic approaches, as well as a biographical method, made it possible to achieve the goal of the study - having reconstructed the life path of P. N. Basyuk, to identify factors that potentially influenced the development of the career of a provincial security officer in the 1920s–1940s.
About the Authors
D. I. Petin
Omsk State Technical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Petin Dmitriy Igorevich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the History, Philosophy and Social Communications Department
AuthorID (RSCI): 742782
AuthorID (SCOPUS): 57188761451
ResearcherID: A-8542-2017
Omsk
A. S. Popova
Scientific and Production Association “Mir”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Popova Anastasia Sergeevna, Engineer of the Project Management, Member of the Omsk branch of the Ural Historical and Genealogical Society
Omsk
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Petin D.I., Popova A.S. «He knows operational and investigative work well...»: to the biography of Soviet intelligence officer P. N. Basyuk. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2025;10(3):73-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-3-73-82. EDN: HXQBNS
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