Andrey Andreyev (politician)

Andrey Andreyev Андрей Андреев
Andreyev in 1924
Chairman of the Party Control Commission of the Central Committee
In office 19 March 1939 – 5 October 1952
Preceded by	Nikolai Yezhov
Succeeded by	Matvei Shkiryatov
In office 1930–1931
Preceded by	Grigol Ordzhonikidze
Succeeded by	Jānis Rudzutaks
People's Commissar for Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate
In office 22 November 1930 – 9 October 1931
Preceded by	Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
Succeeded by	Jānis Rudzutaks
Personal details
Born	(1895-10-30)30 October 1895 Kuznetsovo, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	5 December 1971(1971-12-05) (aged 76) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet
Nationality	Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Central institution membership 1932–1952: Full member, 16th, 17th, 18th Politburo 1926–1930: Candidate member, 14th, 15th, 16th Politburo 1935–1946: Member, 17th, 18th Secretariat 1924–1925: Member, 12th, 13th Secretariat 1935–1946: Full member, 17th, 18th Orgburo 1922–1928: Full member, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th Orgburo 1922–1961: Full member, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Central Committee Other offices held 1938–1946: Chairman, Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet 1931–1935: People's Commissar, Transport

Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Андре́ев; 30 October 1895 – 5 December 1971) was a Soviet Communist politician who rose to power during the rule of Joseph Stalin, joining the Politburo as a candidate member in 1926 and as a full member in 1932. Andreyev also headed the powerful Control Commission of the Soviet Communist Party in 1930 and 1931 then again continuously from 1939 until 1952.

After the death of Stalin Andreyev was removed from the Politburo and placed in a largely ceremonial position as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev was the son of a peasant peasant family. Andreyev left the village to work as an industrial worker, assuming a position in a munitions factory during World War I.

Andreyev was married to Dora Khazan (1894-1961), who was a student along with Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, at an industrial academy. Together the couple had two children, a son named Vladimir (born 1919) and a daughter named Olga (born 1921).

Andreyev joined the Bolshevik Party in 1914.

He was a member of the Politburo from 1932 until 1952. Andreyev was a Chairman of the Soviet of the Union from 1938 until 1946 and directed the party's powerful Control Commission during 1930-1931 and again from 1939 until 1952.

In 1949 he was briefly People's Commissar for Agriculture. This was also the year of the Leningrad case for which Andreyev built up a case against Nikolai Voznesensky, accusing him of losing 526 documents from Gosplan.