Leonid Krasin
| Leonid Krasin | |
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| People's Commissar for Foreign Trade | |
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In office 6 July 1923 – 18 November 1925 |
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| Succeeded by | Alexander Tsiurupa |
| People's Commissar for Trade and Industry | |
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In office November 1918 – June 1920 |
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| People's Commissar for Transport | |
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In office March 1919 – December 1920 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 July 1870 Kurgan, Tobolsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 24 November 1926 (aged 56) London, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | Soviet |
| Political party | RSDLP, Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Leonid Borisovich Krasin (Russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Кра́син; 15 July [O.S. 3 July] 1870 – 24 November 1926) was a Russian engineer, social entrepreneur and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat.
Krasin was born in Kurgan, Tobolsk Governorate in Siberia. His father, Boris Ivanovich Krasin, was the local chief of police. The young Leonid was a star pupil at school, and met the American explorer George Kennan when he visited Siberia. Krasin joined the Social Democratic Labor Party during the 1890s. He graduated from Kharkov Technological Institute in 1901.
In the 1903 split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, Krasin supported the latter, and was elected to the Central Committee the same year.
Arrested towards the end of the 1890s, he was sent to internal exile in Siberia where he worked as a draughtsman on the Trans-Siberian Railway. On his release from exile in 1900 he moved to Baku, where Joseph Stalin was also active at the time. While there, Krasin used his financial contacts to help establish an illegal printing press which was the main vehicle for Vladimir Lenin's newspaper. He left Baku in 1904 to work as the chief engineer of Savva Morozov.
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