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People's Commissariat For Agriculture
People's Commissariat for Agriculture (russian: Народный комиссариат земледелия - Narkomzem) was set up in Petrograd in October 1917. Vladimir Milyutin was appointed the first People's Commissar of Agriculture. He was a member of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom). The Narkomzem offices located at Orlikov Pereulok, 1, Moscow were designed by Aleksey Shchusev in 1928. This building is currently occupied by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. Following the establishment of Sovnarkom at the Second All-Russian Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies' Soviets Lenin attended the Extraordinary All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Peasants' Deputies where he promised that the Left Socialist Revolutionaries could select one of their members to become the Narkomsem Commissar. Andrei Kolegayev was appointed to this position on 23 December 1917. In 1946 the Commissariat was replaced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Schlichter
Alexander Grigorievich Schlichter (Ukrainian: Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер; 1 September, 1868 – 2 December, 1940) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik politician, Soviet statesman, political scientist and economist. Schlichter's grandfather, originally from western Germany (Württemberg), settled in what is the present-day Poltava Oblast of Ukraine in 1818. Schlichter was ethnically one-quarter German and three-fourths Ukrainian. Following studies at Kharkiv University, Schlichter joined a student the social democratic circle in 1891. He was involved in the technical production of the illegal Bolshevik paper ''Proletary'' while it appeared in the Russian Empire (1904–1906). After the Bolshevik seizure of power he succeeded Vladimir Milyutin as People's Commissar for Agriculture. He also was People's Commissar for Food of the R.S.F.S.R., Commissar Extraordinary for Food in Siberia. In 1919 he became People's Commissar for Food of Ukraine. In 1920 he was Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev
Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Андре́ев; 30 October 1895 – 5 December 1971) was a Soviet Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist politician. An Old Bolshevik who rose to power during the rule of Joseph Stalin, joining the Politburo as a candidate member in 1926 and as a full member in 1932, Andreyev also headed the powerful Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1931, and then again from 1939 until 1952. In 1952, Andreyev was removed from the Politburo and placed in a largely ceremonial position as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Biography Early years Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev was born in the Sychyovsky Uyezd of the Smolensk Governorate of the Russian Empire to a peasant family. He left the village at the age of 13 to work as a dishwasher in Moscow. He attended workers' educational courses, and by the time he was 15 had jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Eiche
Robert Indrikovich Eikhe ( lv, Roberts Eihe (Ēķis), russian: Роберт Индрикович Эйхе; August 12, 1890 — February 4, 1940) was a Latvian Bolshevik and Soviet politician who was the provincial head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Siberia during the forced collectivization of agriculture, until his arrest during the Great Purge. Early life Robert Eikhe's parents were farm labourers on an estate in Doblen County in what was then Courland province, in modern day Latvia. He left school at the age of 13 or 14 to become an apprentice in a locksmith's workshop and joined the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory (which was closely aligned to the Bolsheviks) during the 1905 Revolution. Arrested in August 1907, he spent two months in prison. In February 1908, he was arrested with 18 others at an illegal meeting; he was released under police supervision after six months in prison. At the end of 1908 he emigrated to the UK. He was a stoker on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Chernov (politician)
Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov (russian: Михаи́л Александро́вич Черно́в; 20 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian people, Russian politician and Soviet Union, Soviet statesman who was executed during the Great Purge. He was born in Vichuga, now in Ivanovo Oblast, to a family of weavers. In 1909 he became a Menshevik and graduated from the gymnasium in Kostroma in 1911. Between 1913 and 1917 he attended Moscow University, where he studied mathematics and physics. During this period he became friendly with Dmitri Furmanov. In 1914 his daughter was born in Ivanovo. Work in Ivanovo *1909 - a member of the Mensheviks, Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. *1916 - delivered workplaces courses with Furmanov * 3 Jun, 1918 - organized by «the Committee on the Establishment of Ivanovo-Voznesensky Polytechnic Institute» (based evacuated Riga Polytechnic Institute). Mikhail Frunze appointed Chernov as secretary (managing directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Yakovlev
Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev (real name: Epstein; russian: Я́ков Арка́дьевич Я́ковлев, 9 June 1896, Grodno – 29 July 1938) was a Soviet politician and statesman who played a central role in the forced collectivisation of agriculture in the 1920s. Early career Yakov Yakovlev was born in Grodno, in Belarus. His father was a teacher, of Jewish descent. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1913, as a student at St Petersburg Polytechnic. After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, he was secretary of the party organisation in Yekaterinoslav (Dnipro) in Ukraine. He was a leader of the right wing of the Ukrainian Communist Party (b), who were in control through most of the Russian Civil War. Ousted by the left in March 1920, he was appointed a member of the Politburo of the Ukrainian party in April, after Moscow had intervened. In 1921, Yakovlev was transferred to Moscow, to work for the RSFSR People's Commissariat for Education, and the Agitprop department of the Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Kubyak
Nikolay Afanasyevich Kubyak (russian: Николай Афанасьевич Кубяк; July 29 ugust 101881 – November 27, 1937) was a Soviet state and party figure. Chairman of the All-Union Council for Communal Services by Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (1933-1937). Biography Born in the family of a foundry worker at the Bryansk factory in Bezhitsa. Of Russian ethnicity, he graduated from a parochial school. Member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1898. In 1917 the commandant of the Beloostrov station, since May the deputy of the Petrograd Soviet, the chairman of the Sestroretsk Zemstvo Administration (May–October), the chairman of the Sestroretsk District Committee of the RSDLP (b). After the October Revolution, he became a member of the Petrograd District Committee of the RSDLP (b), People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Northern Region. Secretary, in March 1918, the chairman of the Petrograd Gubernia Party Committee and the vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Petrovich Smirnov
Aleksandr Petrovich Smirnov (born in 1877 in the village of Nikola, in the Tver province – on February 9, 1938) Was a Russian Old Bolshevik, revolutionary and Soviet statesman. Born in to a peasant family, he later became a factoryworker. He became a member of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class in 1896. Smirnov was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the RSDLP in 1907 and 1912. In 1917 he became chairman of the soviet in Bogorodsk (present-day Noginsk), and a member of the presidium of the soviet of Moscow province. From 1919 to 1922 he was Deputy People's Commissar for Food, and from 1923 to 1928 he was People's Commissar for Agriculture of the RSFSR and, at the same time, general secretary of the Peasant International. He aligned himself with Joseph Stalin in the early 1920s. However, in 1933 he was expelled from the Central Committee, for his participation, together with Nikolai Eismont and Vladimir Tolmachev, in the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerian Osinsky
Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky (Russian: Валериа́н Валериа́нович Оболе́нский; 25 March 1887 – 1 September 1938) (who worked under the pseudonym Nikolai Osinsky) was a Russian Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ... revolutionary, Marxism, Marxist theorist, Soviet Union, Soviet politician, economist and Professor of the Agricultural Academy of Moscow. Early life Valerian Obolensky was born in Kursk Oblast, Kursk province, where his father was manager of a stud farm. While studying at the Faculty of Law of the Imperial Moscow University, Moscow University, Obolensky participated in the 1905 Russian Revolution and distributed revolutionary literature among students and was a reporter for the newspaper ''Izvestia, Izvestiya''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semyon Sereda
Semyon Pafnutyevich Sereda (russian: Семён Пафнутьевич Середа; 1 February 1871 – 21 May 1933) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was the son of a railway employee. From 1896 to 1917 he worked as a statistician. Sereda joined the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903. In 1917, he became a member of the Ryazan ''gubkom'', and from 1 March 1918 until 1 December 1921 served as the Peoples's Commissar for Agriculture. In this capacity he led the grain requisition and punitive operations against peasants in Yeletsky Uyezd of Oryol Governorate in 1918. Sereda was one of the main initiators of the creation of state farms and industrial communities. From January 1920 he was a member of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the National Economy and Gosplan The State Planning Committee, commonly known as Gosplan ( rus, Госплан, , ɡosˈpɫan), was the agency responsible for central economic planning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Agriculture And Food (Soviet Union)
The People's Commissariat for Agriculture, abbreviated as ''Narkomzem'' was established in the USSR in 1929. Its headquarters building was located at Orlikov Pereulok, 1, Moscow, designed by Aleksey Shchusev in 1928. ''Narkomzem'' was reformed as the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture and Food (''Minsel'khoz'') in 1946. History The commissariat united all republican commissariats of the Soviet Union. It was formally known as the People's Commissariat for Agriculture (russian: Народный комиссариат земледелия - ''Narkomzem'') was set up in Petrograd in October 1917. Vladimir Milyutin was appointed the first People's Commissar of Agriculture. He was a member of the Council of People's Commissars. The Ministry was abolished in November 1985 with the creation of the State Agro-Industrial Committee (''Gosagroprom'') which took over the functions of the Ministry for Agriculture, the Ministry for Fruit and Vegetable Production, the Ministry for the Meat and Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Milyutin
Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin (Russian: Влади́мир Па́влович Милю́тин; 5 September 1884 – 30 October 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik leader, Soviet statesman, economist and statistician who was People's Commissar for Agriculture in the original soviet government formed on the day of the Bolshevik Revolution, but resigned in protest against Vladimir Lenin's decision to impose one party rule. Early career Born in the village of Alexandrovo, Kursk Governorate in 1884, into a Jewish family. Milyutin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1903, and was initially a Menshevik. His membership of the Communist Party was postdated only until 1910, implying that he did not join the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP until that year. He was a 'conciliator', who hoped to reunite the disparate parts of the party, and in that capacity was co-opted to the Central Committee in 1910, but arrested almost immediately afterwards. After the February revolution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
