Nikolay Shvernik
| Nikolay Shvernik Николай Шверник |
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| Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union | |
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In office 19 March 1946 – 15 March 1953 |
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| General Secretary | Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Mikhail Kalinin |
| Succeeded by | Kliment Voroshilov |
| Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR | |
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In office 4 March 1944 – 25 June 1946 |
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| Preceded by | Ivan Vlasov |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Vlasov |
| Full member of the 20th, 22nd Presidium | |
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In office 29 June 1957 – 8 April 1966 |
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In office 16 October 1952 – 5 March 1953 |
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| Candidate member of the 18th, 19th Presidium | |
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In office 5 March 1953 – 29 June 1957 |
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| Full member of the 14th, 16th, 17th Orgburo | |
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In office 22 March 1939 – 16 October 1952 |
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In office 9 April 1926 – 16 April 1927 |
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| Full member of the 16th Secretariat | |
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In office 13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934 |
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| Candidate member of the 14th Secretariat | |
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In office 9 April 1926 – 16 April 1927 |
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| Personal details | |
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7 May 1888 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 24 December 1970 (aged 82) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Mariya Fedorovna Ulazovskaya |
Nikolay Mikhailovich Shvernik (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Шве́рник, 19 May [O.S. 7 May] 1888 – 24 December 1970) was a Soviet politician and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (or President of the USSR) from March 19, 1946 until March 15, 1953. Though the titular Soviet head of state, Shvernik had, in fact, little power because the real authority lay with Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Shvernik was born in St. Petersburg and joined the Bolsheviks in 1905. In 1924 he became a People's Commissar in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and became a full member of the Central Committee of the party in 1925. In 1927 he was demoted and sent to the Urals to head the local party organization. Stalin found him a loyal supporter of his policy of rapid industrialisation and moved him back to Moscow in 1929 making him chairman of the Metallurgist Trade Union. He resumed his rise in the party becoming a member of the Orgburo and the party Secretariat. He also served as first secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions from July 1930 to March 1944. As such, Shvernik presided over the 1931 Menshevik Trial, in which fourteen Russian economists came up for trial on charges of treason.
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