Saul Bron is best known as Chairman of Amtorg Trading Corporation in New York City and Chairman of the All-Russian Co-operative Society in London.
16 Facts About Saul Bron
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Saul Bron became a victim of Stalin's Great Purge and was executed on 21 April 1938.
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Saul Grigorievich Bron was born 25 January 1887 in Odessa, in a Jewish family.
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Saul Bron graduated the Odessa gymnasium and began his higher education at the Kiev Institute of Commerce.
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In 1921 Saul Bron became a member of the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine.
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Saul Bron was the first president of Amtorg whose command of English enabled him to negotiate without the aid of interpreters.
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Saul Bron's tenure concurred with the introduction of the first five-year plan, and his role was to contract with major American companies to help build Soviet industrial infrastructure.
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On 8 May 1929 Saul Bron signed an historic contract with the firm of the leading American industrial architect from Detroit, Albert Kahn, to design the first Soviet tractor plant in Stalingrad.
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In 1930 Saul Bron was transferred to London, where he was appointed chairman of ARCOS and head of the USSR Trade Delegation in Great Britain.
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Saul Bron remained a member of the Collegium of the Commissariat of Foreign Trade and in 1933 was appointed Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of the USSR.
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Saul Bron was falsely accused of being a member of an anti-Soviet terrorist organization; of preparing, together with Tomsky, a terrorist act against Stalin; and of being an agent of British intelligence.
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Saul Bron was sentenced to death and was executed the same day.
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Saul Bron was posthumously rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 25 April 1956.
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Klara Azarievna Saul Bron was born in 1885 in Uman, Kievskaya Gubernia.
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Saul Bron worked as a researcher at the Institute of World Economy and World Politics, Moscow.
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Saul Bron did not survive her term and died on 25 January 1945.