Sergei Kirov
| Sergei Kirov Серге́й Миро́нович Ки́ров |
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| First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijani Communist Party | |
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In office July 1921 – January 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Grigory Kaminsky |
| Succeeded by | Levon Mirzoyan |
| First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) | |
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In office 1 August 1927 – 1 December 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Andrey Zhdanov |
| First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) | |
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In office 8 January 1926 – 1 December 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Grigory Yevdokimov |
| Succeeded by | Andrey Zhdanov |
| Full member of the 16th, 17th Politburo | |
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In office 13 July 1930 – 1 December 1934 |
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| Candidate member of the 14th, 15th Politburo | |
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In office 23 July 1926 – 13 July 1930 |
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| Member of the 17th Secretariat | |
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In office 10 February – 1 December 1934 |
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| Full member of the 17th Orgburo | |
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In office 10 February – 1 December 1934 |
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| Personal details | |
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Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov 27 March 1886 Urzhum, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1 December 1934 (aged 48) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1904–1918) All-Union Communist Party (1918–1934) |
Sergei Mironovich Kirov (Russian: Серге́й Миро́нович Ки́ров), born Kostrikov (Ко́стриков; 27 March [O.S. 15 March] 1886 – 1 December 1934), was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the party organization in Leningrad.
On 1 December 1934, Kirov was shot and killed by a gunman at his offices in the Smolny Institute. Some historians place the blame for his assassination at the hands of Joseph Stalin and believe the NKVD organized his execution, but conclusive evidence for this claim remains lacking. Kirov's death served as one of the pretexts for Stalin's escalation of repression against dissident elements of the Party, and disarming of the Party (every Party member was issued with a revolver up to that time, when Stalin had them all taken away), culminating in the Great Purge of the late 1930s in which many of the Old Bolsheviks were arrested, expelled from the party, and executed. Complicity in Kirov's assassination was a common charge to which the accused confessed in the show trials of the period.
The cities of Kirov, Kirovohrad, Kirovakan, and Kirovabad, as well as a few Kirovsks, were renamed in Kirov's honor after his assassination. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kirovakan and Kirovabad returned to their original names: Vanadzor and Ganja, respectively. In order to comply with decommunization laws Kirovohrad was renamed in July 2016 by the Ukrainian parliament to Kropyvnytskyi.
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