Shatsov Semyon Abramovich (1899 — 21.04.1978, Riga) — tailor, serviceman, party and public figure. In 1912 he began work as a tailor's apprentice, later as a tailor. In 1919 he joined the Gomel Proletarian Battalion; member of the CPSU from 1920. In 1920—1922 he was the official receiver of military uniforms at a factory, and secretary of the factory committee of the military uniform factory. In 1922—1925 he served as political officer of a squadron of the 11th Cavalry Division. He took part in suppressing the Basmachi movement in Central Asia. Until 1941 he worked in the Byelorussian SSR as a labour-protection instructor, a health instructor, an official of the Rechitsa city council, head of a sewing workshop, chairman of an artel board, party committee secretary, factory director, and worker.
In 1941—1944 he served in the Soviet Army: deputy political officer of a company of the 61st Cavalry Division. He was wounded, awarded the medal “For the Defence of Stalingrad,” and in 1967 the Order of the Red Banner. In 1944—1951 — chief engineer of a sewing factory, deputy manager of Glavlegsbyt in Dushanbe (Tajikistan).
From 1952, in Riga — chief engineer, engineer-technologist at the “Rīgas drēbnieks” artel, shift foreman at the “Rosme” sewing factory, and from 1961 — quality-control foreman at the knitwear and headwear combine. He was repeatedly elected secretary of the party organisation and member of the party bureau, worked in the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, was chairman of a people's control group, and a member of an ad hoc commission attached to the district party committee. Personal pensioner of republic-wide significance.

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