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Hryhoriy Petrovsky

Grigory Petrovsky
Григо́рій Іва́нович Петро́вський
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Chairman of VUTsVK
In office
10 March 1919 – 25 July 1938
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
In office
17 November 1917 – 30 March 1919
Prime Minister Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by Alexey Rykov
Succeeded by Felix Dzerzhinsky
Candidate member of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th Politburo
In office
1 January 1926 – 22 March 1939
Personal details
Born (1878-02-03)3 February 1878
Pechenihy,Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 9 January 1958(1958-01-09) (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)
Signature

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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