Alexei Yegorovich Badayev (russian: Алексе́й Его́рович Бада́ев; – 3 November 1951) was a Soviet politician, functionary and a nominal head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the leadership of Joseph Stalin.

Biography

Badayev was born at Yuryevo in the Oryol Governorate of the Russian Empire in 1883. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; in , ''Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)''), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist pol ...

in 1904, and was an active member of the Metal Workers' Union from its inception in 1906. From 1912 to 1914 he was a Deputy of the Fourth

State Duma The State Duma (russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма, r=Gosudárstvennaja dúma), commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma ( rus, Госду́ма), is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper house ...

. In 1912-13, he also worked on the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda. In 1914, along with the other members of the Bolshevik group in the Fourth Duma (apart from the double agent Roman Malinovsky), and was deported the following year to Turkestan. He later wrote reminiscences of this period which were translated into English as
The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma
'. Badayev returned to

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), i ...

after the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

in 1917 and became actively involved in the city duma, and in the management of food distribution. After the Bolshevik Revolution he was appointed chairman of the Food Commissariat for the North West region of Russia. In September 1919

consumer commune (shortly Petrocommune) was established by Decree of the Sovnarkom "On consumer communities" dated 16 March 1919. It was the germ of the cooperative sector during the " war communism". Badayev was the founding chairman of the Petrocommune governance. Энциклопедия & Словари >> Энциклопедия Санкт-Петербурга >> Петрокоммуна.
/ref> In the first half of the 1920s he worked as Deputy Chairman of the

(later the city was renamed Leningrad) gubispolkom ( ispolkom of gubernija). He was a member of the

Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

of the All-Union Communist Party from 1925 to 1951 - one of only a handful of members of that body to survive the Great Purge. He was Chairman of the USSR Central Consumers' Union (

Tsentrosoyuz The Tsentrosoyuz Building or Centrosoyuz Building (russian: Центросоюз) is a government structure in Moscow, Russia, constructed in 1933 by Le Corbusier and Nikolai Kolli. Centrosoyuz refers to a Soviet bureaucracy, the Central Union of C ...

), 1930-38. From August 1937 to July 1938 he was the People's Commissar of Food Industry of the RSFSR, and from 19 July 1938 to 4 March 1944 he was the

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the collective head of state of the Russian SFSR and the permanent body of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR that was accountable to the Supreme Sov ...

. He died in Moscow in 1951.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Badaev, Alexey 1883 births 1951 deaths People from Oryol Oblast People from Oryol Governorate Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Old Bolsheviks Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Members of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Empire Russian Constituent Assembly members Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Second convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Heads of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's commissars and ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic All-Russian Central Executive Committee members Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1938–1947 Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery

Biography

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