Vladimir Ivanovich Ivanov (russian: Владимир Иванович Иванов; 27 August 1893 – 6 November 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and

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politician who served as the first First Secretary of the

Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR The Communist Party of Uzbekistan (russian: Коммунистическая партия Узбекистана, uz, Ўзбекистон Коммунистик Партияси), initially known as Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Uzbekistan, ...

from 1925 to 1927.

Biography

Born into the family of a draftsman, Ivanov entered the Faculty of Medicine of the

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in 1912. In 1915 he joined the

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and participated in student demonstrations. 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 ...

he was secretary of the Khamovnichesky District Committee of the RSDLP (b) in Moscow. In 1917-1918 and during the

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, he was a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee and the headquarters of the

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of the Basmanny District and secretary of the Basmanny Russian Communist Party (b) of Moscow. From 1917 he was a member of the Presidium of the Moscow City Council and later the Moscow Committee of the RCP (b). From September to November 1919, he was a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Fergana Front against the

Basmachi movement The Basmachi movement (russian: Басмачество, ''Basmachestvo'', derived from Uzbek: "Basmachi" meaning "bandits") was an uprising against Russian Imperial and Soviet rule by the Muslim peoples of Central Asia. The movement's roots ...

in the

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. From May to October 1924 Ivanov was the chairman of the Moscow

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of the RCP (b) and was head of the Moscow Workers' and Peasants' Inspection. He was a member of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b) and a candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b) from 1924 to 1925. Ivanov served from 13 February 1925 until 1927 as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan. His replacement was Kuprian Kirkizh. From 1927 to 1931 he was the second secretary of the North Caucasian Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b). From 1931 to 1937 he was the first secretary of the Northern Regional Committee of the VKP (b). Ivanov was a Candidate member of the Central Committee of the VKP (b) from 1925 to 1934 and a member of the Central Committee of the VKP (b) from 1934 to 1937. From 1936 to 1937 he served as People's Commissar of the Timber Industry of the Soviet Union. During the Great Purge, he was put on the last of the

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, the

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, and subsequently executed. He was rehabilitated in 1959.

References

World Statesmen - Uzbekistan
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