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Valerian Kuybyshev | |
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Валериан Куйбышев | |
 Kuybyshev in the 1930s | |
| First Deputy Chairman of theCouncil of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 14 May 1934 – 25 January 1935 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Chairman of theSupreme Soviet of the National Economy | |
| In office 5 August 1926 – 10 November 1930 | |
| Premier | Alexey Rykov |
| Preceded by | Felix Dzerzhinsky |
| Succeeded by | Sergo Ordzhonikidze |
| Chairman of theState Planning Committee | |
| In office 10 November 1930 – 25 April 1934 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Gleb Krzhizhanovsky |
| Succeeded by | Valery Mezhlauk |
| People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate | |
| In office 6 July 1923 – 5 August 1926 | |
| Premier | Vladimir Lenin Alexey Rykov |
| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Sergo Ordzhonikidze |
| Full member of the15th,16th,17thPolitburo | |
| In office 19 December 1927 – 25 January 1935 | |
| Member of the11thSecretariat | |
| In office 3 April 1922 – 25 April 1923 | |
| Full member of the12th,17thOrgburo | |
| In office 10 February 1934 – 25 January 1935 | |
| In office 26 April 1923 – 2 June 1924 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888 Omsk, Russia |
| Died | 25 January 1935(1935-01-25) (aged 46) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
| Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks)(1904–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1935) |
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev[a] (Russian:Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888 – 25 January 1935) was a Russian revolutionary,Red Army officer, and prominentSoviet politician.
Born inOmsk inSiberia on 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888, Kuybyshev studied at theSiberian Military Cadet School [ru], a Cadet Corps in Omsk. He joined theBolshevik faction of theRussian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. The following year, he entered theImperial Military-medical Academy inSaint Petersburg, but was expelled in 1906 for controversial political activities.[1]
Between 1906 and 1914 Kuybyshev carried out subversive activities for the Bolsheviks throughout theRussian Empire, for which he was exiled toNarym in Siberia. There together withYakov Sverdlov, he set up a local Bolshevik organization. In May 1912 he fled and returned toOmsk, where he was arrested the next month, and imprisoned for a year. He was transferred toTambov to live independently under police surveillance, but soon fled again, whereafter he spent 1913–14 encouraging civil unrest in the cities ofSaint Petersburg,Kharkov, andVologda. He relocated to Samara in 1917; and became president of the localsoviet—a position he held at the time of the 1917October Revolution and for the next year. During theRussian Civil War of 1917-1923 he chaired the revolutionary committee of Samara province and became apolitical commissar in the First and Fourth Red Armies.
In 1920 Kuybyshev became a member of the Presidium of theRed International of Trade Unions, which charged him with the implementation of theGOELRO plan. From 6 July 1923 to 5 August 1926 he served as the first economical inspector of the USSR (People's Commissar of theRabkrin). From 1926 to 1930 he chaired theSupreme Council of the National Economy, from 1930 to 1934 he directedGosplan, and he served as a full member of thePolitburo from 1934 until his death. As a principal economic advisor toJoseph Stalin, he became one of the most influential members in the Communist Party. He was awarded[when?] theOrder of the Red Banner. Kuybyshev was one of the initiators of the first edition of theGreat Soviet Encyclopedia and served as a member of its chief editorial board.[2]
Kuybyshev died inMoscow 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 theKremlin Wall Necropolis.
Kuybyshev married several times.[3]
The city ofSamara (the administrative city of theSamara Oblast, Russia), the town ofBolgar (in theRepublic of Tatarstan, Russia), village ofHaghartsin, Armenia, village ofUrasar,Armenia were all renamed Kuybyshev during the period between 1935 and 1991. The town ofKuybyshev inNovosibirsk Oblast, Russia, still has his name to this day. There is a statue of him in theKuybyshev Square in Samara[4] and inDushanbe, Tajikistan.[5]
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