Grigory Petrovsky
| Grigory Petrovsky Григо́рій Іва́нович Петро́вський |
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| Chairman of VUTsVK | |
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In office 10 March 1919 – 25 July 1938 |
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| Prime Minister |
Christian Rakovsky Vlas Chubar Panas Lyubchenko Mykhailo Bondarenko Mykola Marchak Demyan Korotchenko |
| Preceded by | (post revived, previously Volodymyr Zatonsky) |
| Succeeded by |
Leonid Korniyets (as the chairman of Presidium) Mikhail Burmistenko (as the chairman of Verkhovna Rada) |
| People's Commissar of NKVD of RSFSR | |
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In office 17 November 1917 – 30 March 1919 |
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| Prime Minister | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Alexey Rykov |
| Succeeded by | Felix Dzerzhinsky |
| Candidate member of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th Politburo | |
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In office 1 January 1926 – 22 March 1939 |
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| Personal details | |
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3 February 1878 Pechenihy,Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 9 January 1958 (aged 79) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | KPSS |
| Other political affiliations |
KP(b)U |
| Alma mater | elementary |
| Awards |
Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner of Labour (3) |
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Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Петро́вский, Ukrainian: Григорій Іванович Петровський Hryhoriy Ivanovych Petrovsky) (3 February 1878 - 9 January 1958) was a prominent Soviet communist. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Petrovsky was one of the officials responsible for implementing collectivization and for the subsequent Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.
Petrovsky was born in a village of Pechenihy in Kharkov Governorate on 3 February (Old Style - 22 January) 1878, in the family of a craftsman (some sources claim - son of tailor and laundrywoman). Grigory's father died when he was three. Petrovsky had two siblings.
After finishing two classes of school at the Kharkiv Theological Seminary in 1889, Petrovsky was dismissed for not being able to pay for his tuition. Being 11 years old he left education for a job in the city working for a locomotive depot. In 1893 at age of 15 he arrived to Yekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk) where he found a job at the Bryansk Metallurgical Factory (today - Petrovsky Factory).
In 1895 Petrovsky joined the revolutionary movement and in 1897 enrolled in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDRP) and joined the "Union in the fight for the liberation of the worker's class" as well as the Yekaterinslav committee of RSDRP. At this period of time he actively participated in the political agitation for the Bolsheviks from Mykolaiv to Mariupol, from Donets basin to Kharkiv, for which he was arrested in 1900 and 1903.
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