Valerian Savelievich (Saulovich) Dovgalevsky (23 September 1885 – 14 July 1934) was a member of the

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revolutionary movement,

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statesman, diplomat and People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.Валериан Савельевич Довгалевский
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since 1908 and the

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since 1915.

Biography

He participated in the revolutionary movement since 1904. In 1906, he was arrested and sentenced to an eternal settlement. In the spring of 1908 however, he fled abroad. *1908–1910 – Secretary of the Bolshevik group in

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(Belgium); *1911–1914 – Secretary of the Bolshevik group in

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(France); *Graduated from the Electrotechnical Institute in Toulouse in 1913. In July 1917, he returned to Russia and in 1918, he joined the

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. *1919–1920 – in the People's Commissariat of Railways of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic; *1920 – Member of the Commission of the Council of Labor and Defense of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic for the restoration of roads in Siberia and the Urals; *1920 – communications inspector and commissar of the district engineering department in Kiev; *1921–1923 – People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic; *1923–1924 – Deputy People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Soviet Union; *1924–1927 – Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Sweden; *March – October 1927 – Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Japan; *1927–1934 – Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in France. In October 1929, he signed a protocol in London on the restoration of Soviet–British diplomatic relations, which were severed in May 1927. In November 1932, he signed the

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. Since 1933, he took part in the work of the conference on disarmament in Geneva. He died on 14 July 1934, in a clinic near Paris from

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. Condolences over his death were expressed by President

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and Foreign Minister

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. He was cremated at the

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crematorium. The urn with his ashes was delivered by plane to Moscow and buried in the Necropolis Near the Kremlin Wall.

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Dovgalevsky Valerian SavelievichBiography in the Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dovgalevsky, Valerian 1885 births 1934 deaths Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet diplomats Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Sweden Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Japan Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to France French socialists Deaths from cancer in France Deaths from colorectal cancer