Buttai Butaev biography

Moscow, st. Dovator, the village of Condition: “For several years, he carried out counter -revolutionary espionage activities in favor of some foreign intelligence” Conviction: September 4, Aslanbek, in the baptism of Alexander Savvich Butaev was born in the North Ossetian village of Salugardan of the Vladikavkaz district of the Terek region. In the family of a peasant Savva Dadievich there were eight children: five boys and three girls.

All boys, except for one temporarily changed place of residence, were repressed in years: who was exiled, who was imprisoned and who was shot. The family lived well, there was not enough money for the education of children, but the craving for knowledge was huge, and almost everyone received higher education. The eldest, Aslanbek, having graduated with honors from the parish school in the village only she was sent to study at the Alexander Theological Seminary in the city of Ardon, which he also graduated with honors in the year.

Since he was not going to become a priest, but studied at the state expense, he had to work as a teacher at his native Salugardan school, and only after that in the year did Aslanbek Butaev entered the correspondence department of the law faculty of the Imperial Yuryevsky University of Tartu. To make a first fee for study, the father sold the only cow. But already in the second semester there was not enough money, and Butaev was expelled "for non -payment." As a result, studies at the university stretched for as many as eight years.

Quite quickly, Aslanbek began to earn extra money, for two years he was the manager of the major printing house K. Fedorov in Ashgabat, and he himself helped the family: his father paid his debts thanks to him, the brothers could study. The younger brother of Kazbek subsequently became a prominent scientist-economist, he was shot in the year. Educated Ossetians dreamed of a national newspaper, and Aslanbek Butaev more than once made attempts to publish the newspaper personally.

In Vladikavkaz, he tried to launch a newspaper called “Fidiuag” “herald”, but did not receive permission from the authorities. In the summer of the year, a group of intellectuals, which included people of various professions, including three students, including Butaev, began the publication of the first socio -literary newspaper in the Ossetian language, which, after long disputes, was called the "Ossetian newspaper".

The chief editor was chosen by Butaev - as the most experienced in typographic business. The first issue was released on July 23, but the newspaper did not live long: on August 20, at the order of the Governor General, it was closed, and its chief editor was sent to prison a few days later. Censorship, especially vigilant after the revolutionary events of the year, saw an anti -government spirit in the newspaper.

Aslanbek Buteva was released from prison on October 13 with a prescription to leave the Terek region within three days. Kopping from place to place, he nevertheless entered the IR Publishing Society of Ossetia, which legally took shape shortly after the closure of the newspaper and set the task of "promote the education of Ossetians." This publishing society essentially laid the foundations of printing in Ossetia.

After the February Revolution, fermentation began in the Caucasus, the so-called Goro Republic arose, which included the territories of Dagestan, Chechen-Ingushetia, Ossetia and other mountain regions. Aslanbek Butayev became one of the active figures of the Second Mountain Government, although, according to the memoirs of relatives, he did not agree with the main goal of the Highlanders Union - a branch from Russia.

From December 30 to March 25, he was a minister of agriculture and state property in the government, then for another two months he was the Minister of the National Economy. After the collapse of the mountain government, by that time, almost all its former ministers emigrated in the Caucasus by that time in the Caucasus. Butaev was one of the few who stayed. After the Civil War, he worked in various public positions.

At the end of the x Butaev, he was persecuted because of his “bourgeois-nationalist” past. In the year, the house belonging to him in Vladikavkaz was nationalized, and he himself was planted. His first wife died in M, leaving him five children, the youngest of whom is not yet three years old. The second time he married seven years later, two children were born in this marriage.

The daughter of Fatima G. Sons Oleg G. accused him of "for a number of years conducted counter -revolutionary espionage activities in favor of some foreign intelligence." They confiscated everything, to children's things, including the piano, which prevented the talented youngest daughter Zair to continue music classes. The verdict was carried out on November 30 at midnight in Ordzhonikidze.

Butaev was 63 years old. Aslanbek Savvich Butaev was rehabilitated in the year. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court decided: to cancel the sentence "due to newly discovered circumstances and the case to stop the absence of the corpus delicti." The text uses data from the book of Yu. Khoruev “The Seal of Terek and Tsarist Censorship” Ordzhonikidze, G.The installation of the memorial sign "The last address" photo: Oksana Matievskaya until a year Dovator Street was called small bumps, as she once adjoined the swamp.

In the year, on Usachev Street, the construction of one of the first residential complexes in Moscow - “Usachevka” architects of project A. Meshkov, N. Molokov and others began. The complex with spacious apartments and large landscaped courtyards was completed in the year and, although it was called the “working village”, was intended mainly for the “old Bolsheviks”.

In years, many of them were arrested. According to the bases of Memorial, at least 17 residents of this house were repressed during the years of large terror. Two of them - Nadezhda Abramovna Bershalova and Aslanbek Savvich Butaev - on October 7, "Last address" installed commemorative signs.