Morozkov
Alexander Georgievich
(1901-1937)
Tomsk chess player of the 1st category, participant of the first chess tournament of the strongest chess players of the cities of Siberia and the Urals in Omsk in 1937; Shot in 1937.
Born on December 1, 1901 in Tomsk in the family of an Omsk bourgeois, a communication technician, later a clerical officer G.F. Morozkov and his wife M.Ya. Morozkova. Received secondary education - in 1918 he graduated from the Tomsk Alekseevsk real school; by profession he was a clerk, in 1937 he served as an assistant accountant at the Tomsk Industrial Institute. Like his younger brother, Sergei Morozkov, showed great promise in the chess field, since the early 1920s he participated in many of the largest chess tournaments held in Siberia. An indicator of the significance of his role in the chess world of that time is the fact that his name was included in the Chess Dictionary, published in 1929 in Moscow under the general editorship of prof. A.A. Smirnov. Many chess connoisseurs denigrated his brilliant chess future, but this was not destined to happen.
The last chess tournament for Alexander Morozkov was the first chess tournament of the strongest chess players in Siberia and the Urals, held in Omsk from June 20 to July 1, 1937. Two months later, on September 27, 1937, he was arrested in Tomsk. October 8, 1937 by the decision of the troika of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk region. was sentenced to VMN as a member of the Cadet-monarchist organization. He was shot on October 19, 1937. Rehabilitated on February 6, 1958.
Source: Museum Archives; Book of memory of the Tomsk region.
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Omsk 1927 Tournament of Siberia and Ural
Morozkov finished 5th behind Anatoly Ufimtsev, G. Bastrikov, Kachkov and Lev Kaiev
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Morozkov, Alexander Georgievich (1901-1937)
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