{{short description|Soviet Great Purge victim (1908–1937)}} {{family name hatnote|Lvovich|Sedov|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{bots|deny=Citation bot}} {{use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Sergei Lvovich Sedov | native_name = Сергей Львович Седов | native_name_lang = ru | birth_date = {{birth date|1908|03|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|10|29|1908|03|21|df=yes}} | death_place = Russian SFSR, USSR | burial_place = Krasnoyarsk,<br />Russian SFSR, USSR | alma_mater = Moscow Mechanical | occupation = {{hlist|Engineer|scientist}} | employer = Moscow Aviation Institute | criminal_penalty = {{hlist|Forced labor|exile|death}} | criminal_status = Rehabilitated (1988) | family = {{unbulleted list||Leon Trotsky (father)|Natalia Sedova (mother)|Lev Sedov (brother)|Yulia Akselrod (daughter)}} }}
'''Sergei Lvovich Sedov''' ({{langx|ru|Сергей Львович Седов}}; 21 March 1908{{spaced en dash}}29 October 1937) was a Soviet engineer and scientist. The son of Leon Trotsky, he was killed in the Great Purge.
==Personal life== The son of Leon Trotsky by his second wife,<ref name="2005 Hoover Digest" /> and younger brother of Lev Sedov,<ref name="2008-02-15 Socialist Appeal" /> Sergei Lvovich Sedov ({{langx|ru|text=Сергей Львович Седов}}) was born on 21 March 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. A graduate of the Moscow Mechanical Institute, and working at the Moscow Aviation Institute,<ref name="Memorial" /> he was an apolitical engineer<ref name="1988-11-23 NYT" /> and scientist.<ref name="2007-08-21 Socialist Appeal" /> His daughter, Yulia, was born around October 1935.<ref name="1988-11-23 AP" /><ref name="Memorial" />
==Arrest and death== Despite having taken his mother's surname to avoid political affiliation with his father,<ref name="1988-11-23 AP" /> Sedov was arrested on 3 March 1935<ref name="Memorial" /> "on trumped-up charges [and] refused to betray [Trotsky]".<ref name="2007-08-21 Socialist Appeal" /> On 14 July 1935, he was sentenced by the NKVD to five years in a labor camp; six days later, the sentence was amended to five years of exile in Krasnoyarsk, working at Krasmash. A 26 May 1936 resentencing sent Sedov to Ukhtpechlag on 3 July, followed by a transfer back to Krasnoyarsk on 23 February 1937 for reinvestigation.<ref name="Memorial" />
{{anchor|Death}}Sedov died in 1937, though accounts differ on the specifics. ''Hoover Digest'' reported that some records show he was killed in a prison uprising, while others allege he was shot in Krasnoyarsk after being accused of a poisoning plot.<ref name="2005 Hoover Digest" /> In 1988, ''The New York Times'' asserted that Sedov was returned to Moscow and shot for Trotsky allegedly plotting to kill Joseph Stalin.<ref name="1988-11-23 NYT" /> Memorial's database of victims of political terror in the USSR ({{langx|ru|text=Жертвы политического террора в СССР}}) shows that he was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1937, executed the same day, and buried in Krasnoyarsk.<ref name="Memorial" />
After Sedov's daughter Yulia Akselrod petitioned Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Sedov was rehabilitated in late 1988 by the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.<ref name="1988-11-23 AP" />
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<ref name="1988-11-23 AP">{{cite news |date=1988-11-23 |title=Trotsky's Son Posthumously Rehabilitated |url=https://apnews.com/article/eeec0386bc527f97187b65035328baaa |url-status=live |language=en |location=Moscow |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113194547/https://apnews.com/article/eeec0386bc527f97187b65035328baaa |archive-date=2020-11-13 |access-date=2020-11-13}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->
<ref name="1988-11-23 NYT">{{cite news |date=1988-11-23 |title=Soviets Exonerate a Son of Trotsky |work=The New York Times |language=en |location=Moscow |agency=Reuters |issn=0362-4331 |oclc=1645522 |quote=Sergei L. Sedov, an Engineer, Was Shot in the 1930's During Stalin's Purges |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1988/11/23/325188.html?pageNumber=10}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->
<ref name="2005 Hoover Digest">{{cite magazine |last1=Bauer |first1=Brad |year=2005 |title=The Gulag: Life Inside |url=http://www.hooverdigest.org/051/bauer.html |url-status=dead |magazine=Hoover Digest |language=en |publisher=Hoover Institution |issue=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051120003014/http://www.hooverdigest.org/051/bauer.html |archive-date=2005-11-20 |access-date=2020-11-13}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->
<ref name="2007-08-21 Socialist Appeal">{{cite news |last1=Sewell |first1=Rob |date=2007-08-21 |title=Leon Trotsky - revolutionary martyr |url=https://www.socialist.net/leon-trotsky-revolutionary-martyr.htm |url-status=live |work=Socialist Appeal |language=en |publisher=International Marxist Tendency |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829123828/https://www.socialist.net/leon-trotsky-revolutionary-martyr.htm |archive-date=2008-08-29 |access-date=2020-11-13}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->
<ref name="2008-02-15 Socialist Appeal">{{cite news |last1=Sewell |first1=Rob |date=2008-02-15 |title=Leon Sedov – 70 years since his murder |url=https://www.socialist.net/leon-sedov-70-years-since-his-murder.htm |url-status=live |work=Socialist Appeal |language=en |publisher=International Marxist Tendency |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106042044/https://www.socialist.net/leon-sedov-70-years-since-his-murder.htm |archive-date=2017-11-06 |access-date=2020-11-13}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->
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<ref name="Memorial">{{cite web |url=https://lists.memo.ru/d29/f386.htm |title= |publisher=Memorial |language=ru |script-title=ru:Седов С. |trans-title=Sedov S. |work=Жертвы политического террора в СССР |access-date=2023-08-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819033023/https://lists.memo.ru/d29/f386.htm |archive-date=2023-08-19}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->
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==Further reading== * {{cite book |last1=Sheridan |first1=Clare |author-link1=Clare Sheridan |year=1921 |chapter=The Kremlin, showing Entrance to the Kameneffs' Apartments |language=en |location=London |publisher=Jonathan Cape |pages=67–70 |title=Russian Portraits}}
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