Pyotr Ivanovich Voevodin (russian: Пётр Иванович Воеводин; 12 July 1884 – 24 November 1964) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and organizer of film production.

Biography

Voevodin was born into a working class family in

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. He graduated from two classes of the Zemstvo school, after which he as took a job as a factory worker. Inn 1899 he joined 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 ...

. He was actively involved in revolutionary activities in many cities, and was repeatedly detained by the police. Voevodin was a participant in the

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. From 1912 to 1913 he was in exile in the United States. In 1913 he returned to Russia illegally and worked in

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but was arrested and exiled to the . In 1917, the West Siberian Congress of Soviets elected Voevodin chairman of the regional food and economic council of Western Siberia and the Urals. In 1918 he was the head of the West Siberian

Sovnarkhoz Sovnarkhoz (russian: совнархоз, совет народного хозяйства, ''sovet narodnogo khozyaystva'', "Council of National Economy"), usually translated as Regional Economic Soviet, was an organization of the Soviet Union to ma ...

. From 1919 to 1920 he worked on military and political affairs. In 1919 he was the commissioner of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (B) and the political commissar of the

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''October Revolution'' on the

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and Southern fronts. In 1920 he was chief commissioner of the . From 1921 to 1922 Voevodin was the head of the All-Russian Photo-Cinematographic Department of the

People's Commissariat for Education The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros; russian: Народный комиссариат просвещения, Наркомпрос, directly translated as the "People's Commissariat for Enlightenment") was the Soviet agency charge ...

of the RSFSR. From 1922 to 1939 Voevodin was the editor-in-chief of the popular science journal ''Electrification'' and the scientific journal . In 1931 he became the head of the

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publishing house and editor of the ''American Technology and Industry'' magazine. Voevodin was elected a member of the

All-Russian Central Executive Committee The All-Russian Central Executive Committee ( rus, Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет, Vserossiysky Centralny Ispolnitelny Komitet, VTsIK) was the highest legislative, administrative and r ...

of the

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's of the 5th and 6th convocations. In 1940 he retired. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet of 2 January 1964, Pyotr Voevodin was awarded the title of

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

with the

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, and the . Voevodin died on 25 November 1964, and was buried in the

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in Moscow. A street in the Kirovsky City District of

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is named after Pyotr Voevodin.

References

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