Vilensky Boris Markovich (1914)

Vilensky Boris (Abram) Markovich (4 September 1914, Yevpatoria) – lawyer.

Boris Vilensky was born into the family of Mark Vilensky (…–1922), an accountant for the grain company “Dreyfus & Co.”, and Maria Vilenskaya, a homemaker. After his father’s death, the family moved to Odessa; from 1924 to 1927, Vilensky lived in Kharkiv. He later relocated to Leningrad. In 1929, he completed seven years of schooling. Between 1929 and 1933, he worked as a process operator at the “Neftegaz” plant in Leningrad. In 1937, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Law.

From 1937 to 1939, he served as Assistant Regional Prosecutor in Aleksandrovsk, Sakhalin Oblast. From 1939 to 1941, he worked as Prosecutor of the Krasnogvardeysky District in Leningrad. Between 1941 and 1943, during the Siege of Leningrad, he was appointed Military Prosecutor. After the blockade was broken, he became Prosecutor in the city of Armavir, a post he held until 1945.

From 1945 to 1946, he was Head of the Investigations Department of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Krasnodar. From 1946 to 1947, he practised as a lawyer at the Central Legal Advisory Office in Kaliningrad. In 1948, he was admitted to the Bar of the Latvian SSR and worked at the Kraslava Legal Advisory Office. In 1949, he was transferred to Riga, where in the 1950s he worked at the 8th Legal Advisory Office. In 1953, he passed a certification exam to qualify as a jurist. He was actively involved in community and political work, edited a workplace wall newspaper, and served as a voluntary consultant to the district party committee. In 1950, he completed consultancy training under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia and led a group of lawyers independently studying the works of Marxist-Leninist classics.

During the 1950s, he was reprimanded by the Party for providing insufficient free legal consultations, appearing at work intoxicated, and engaging in inappropriate conversations. In November 1958, he was expelled from the Bar due to compromising associations with a former colleague who attempted to bribe a People's Judge.

Following his expulsion, he worked as a legal advisor for the Baltspetsgidrostroy administration. In 1960, he was reinstated to the Bar.

Member of the Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) from 1930 to 1939. Member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1940 to 1958. He was also a member of the trade union of state employees from 1933. A participant in the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the medals “For the Defence of Leningrad,” “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” and “For Valiant Labour.”

He and his wife, Galina Artyushina, had two sons, Mark and Boris.

Relatives:

Mark Vilensky (…–1922) – father
Maria Vilenskaya (…–…) – mother
Galina Artyushina (…) – wife
Mark Vilensky (b. c.1937) – son
Boris Vilensky (b. c.1945) – son