Artyom Fyodorovich Sergeyev (russian: Артём Фёдорович Сергеев; 5 March 1921 – 15 January 2008) was the adopted son of
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
. He became a
major general
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in the
Soviet military
The Soviet Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and as the Red Army (, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1991), and th ...
.
Sergeyev's biological father,
Fyodor Sergeyev
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (, ; March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (), was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stali ...
, a close friend of Stalin, died in the
Aerowagon
The Aerowagon or Aeromotowagon (russian: Аэроваго́н, аэродрези́на) was an experimental high-speed railcar fitted with an aircraft engine and propeller traction invented by Valerian Abakovsky, a Soviet engineer from Latv ...
train crash in 1921.
Lenin
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initiated the following adoption by Stalin.
His military service began in 1938 at the age of 17 and he was active in fighting against German troops in
World War II
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. He was appointed
lieutenant colonel
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at the age of 23 and continued serving in the military after the war.
He wrote two books about war and Stalin. His first wife was Amaya Ruiz Ibárruri, the daughter of Spanish Communist politician
Dolores Ibárruri
Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (; 9 December 189512 November 1989), also known as (English: "the Passionflower"), was a Spanish Republican politician of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and a communist known for her slogan ''¡No Pasará ...
.
He is buried at
Kuntsevo Cemetery
The Kuntsevo Cemetery (russian: Ку́нцевское кла́дбище, kúntsevkoye kládbishche) is a cemetery servicing Kuntsevo, Moscow. It is located on the bank of the Setun River, to the south of the Mozhaisk Highway (the continuation o ...
in
Moscow
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.
References
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1921 births
2008 deaths
Soviet prisoners of war
Joseph Stalin
Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery
Soviet major generals
Children of Joseph Stalin