Valerian Kuybyshev

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Valerian Kuybyshev
Валериан Куйбышев
17th Orgburo
In office
10 February 1934 – 25 January 1935
In office
26 April 1923 – 2 June 1924
Personal details
Born6 June [
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904-1918)
Russian Communist Party
(1918-1935)

Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (Russian: Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888 – 25 January 1935) was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician.

Biography

Early years

Born in

Imperial Military-medical Academy in Saint Petersburg, but was expelled in 1906 for controversial political activities.[1]

Revolutionary career

Between 1906 and 1914 Kuybyshev carried out subversive activities for the Bolsheviks throughout the

Samara in 1917; and became president of the local soviet—a position he held at the time of the 1917 October Revolution and for the next year. During the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923 he chaired the revolutionary committee of Samara province and became a political commissar in the First and Fourth
Red Armies.

Political career

In 1920 Kuybyshev was elected[

Supreme Council of the National Economy, from 1930 to 1934 he directed Gosplan, and he served as a full member of the Politburo from 1934 until his death. As a principal economic advisor to Joseph Stalin, he became one of the most influential members in the Communist Party. He was awarded[when?] the Order of the Red Banner. Kuybyshev was one of the initiators of the first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and served as a member of its chief editorial board.[2]

Kuybyshev died in Moscow on 25 January 1935 of heart failure at the age of 46.

In accordance with Bolshevik tradition, he was cremated, and the urn with his ashes was interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

Personal life

Kuybyshev married several times, but never had any children. He was a gifted musician and a poet. His third wife, Galina Aleksandrovna Troyanovskaya, was the niece of Yevgenia Bosch.[citation needed]

Commemoration

Kuybyshev on a 1953 stamp

The city of

Dushanbe, Tajikistan.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4008-8817-7
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  2. ^ "Valerian Kuybyshev".
  3. ^ "Памятник В. В. Куйбышеву". Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 29 December 2019.

External links

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