Valentin Trifonov

Valentin Andreyevich Trifonov (Russian: Валентин Андреевич Трифонов; 8 September 1888 – 15 March 1938) was a Bolshevik activist, Soviet politician and one of the leaders of Cossack revolutionary forces who played a major role in establishment of Soviet rule in the Don Voisko Province.

Prior to the October Revolution, he served as a secretary of the Bolshevik faction in the Petrograd Soviet.

Trifonov was prominent in formation of the Red Army, especially in the Ural regions.

When the war was over, Trifonov presided over the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court.

His vital services to the Communist Party did not save him from being arrested and executed during the Great Purge; His wife, his daughter and his son (the future writer Yury Trifonov) survived him.