Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky (russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Ку́рский; – 20 December 1932) was a Russian

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

jurist and statesman. Kursky joined the

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 ...

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. He served as the chairman of the

Drissa Vierchniadzvinsk ( be, Верхнядзві́нск, lt, Drisa, pl, Dryssa) or Verkhnedvinsk (russian: Верхнедви́нск) is a city in Belarus in the northwest of Vitebsk Region; it is the administrative center of the Verkhnyadzvinsk Ra ...

town

. He was the People's Commissar for Justice of the

RSFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

and the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

from 1918–1928. He committed suicide in 1932.Poemas del río Wang: For a birthday
Riowang.blogspot.com (30 December 2011). Retrieved on 2015-11-29.

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Biography

The History of Communist Party of the Soviet Union
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kursky, D.I. 1874 births 1932 deaths Old Bolsheviks Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Russian communists People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Italy 1932 suicides