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Abstract: The authors describe the tragic fate of the first dean of the history department of the Sverdlovsk Pedagogical Institute V. K. Ansvesul, relying on new archival materials. The Latvian shooter from a working-class family, a loyal Bolshevik, is an example of a participant in the class struggle in the period under review. V. K. Ansvensul was born in a working class family and until the end of 1916 worked as a mechanic in Riga, after the evacuation of the Zalamander enterprise in Riga in 1915 in the Urals – at the Miass factory, in the Zlatoust district. In the years 1916-1917 he fought on the Western Front during the First World War. V. K. Answensul was admitted to the communist party in July 1917, at the Miass Plant, and was an active organizer of the Red Guard. Red wars in Altai and in Siberia during the years of the civil war. He commanded the troops of the Emergency Commission in Belarus and Maykop. The future teacher was invited to work in Belarus, held a number of public posts in the public education of the republic after mobilization in 1924. He was appointed to work in the Ishim District as head of the district political and educational department In January 1927. He graduated from a two-year historical graduate school at the Ural Communist University, which was appointed in 1935. He devoted his whole life to serving the party, which planted a revolutionary ideology. Constant struggle with the enemies of the people in all areas of education. Numerous facts of this activity are available in the article at the Ural State Pedagogical University and in the party bodies of Sverdlovsk. He became a victim of repression. He was convicted and shot for fictitious crimes of the participants in the so-called “Latvian case” against the government, together with other prominent party, state and business workers – latvians. V. K. Answensul was shot by the verdict of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on August 8, 1938. Only after the death of Stalin, on June 25, 1955, was the decision of the board of the Supreme Court of the USSR rehabilitated. The fate of V. K. Ansvesul is typical of the revolutionaries of this historical period.