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Valerian Kuybyshev

Valerian Kuybyshev
Валериан Куйбышев
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First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
In office
14 May 1934 – 25 January 1935
Premier Vyacheslav Molotov
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy
In office
5 August 1926 – 10 November 1930
Premier Alexey Rykov
Preceded by Felix Dzerzhinsky
Succeeded by Grigol Ordzhonikidze
Chairman of the State Planning Committee
In office
10 November 1930 – 25 April 1934
Premier Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
Succeeded by Valery Mezhlauk
People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate
In office
6 July 1923 – 5 August 1926
Premier Vladimir Lenin
Alexey Rykov
Preceded by Post established
Succeeded by Grigol Ordzhonikidze
Full member of the 15th, 16th, 17th Politburo
In office
19 December 1927 – 25 January 1935
Member of the 11th Secretariat
In office
3 April 1922 – 25 April 1923
Full member of the 12th, 17th Orgburo
In office
10 February 1934 – 25 January 1935
In office
26 April 1923 – 2 June 1924
Personal details
Born 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888
Omsk, Russian Empire
Died 25 January 1935(1935-01-25) (aged 46)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship Soviet
Nationality Russian
Political party All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)

Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (Russian: Валериа́н Влади́мирович Ку́йбышев; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888 – 25 January 1935) was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician.

Kuybyshev was born in Omsk in the Russian Empire on 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888. He studied at the Omsk Military Cadet School. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. The following year, he entered a military medical academy, but was expelled in 1906 for controversial political activities.

Between 1906 and 1914, Kuybyshev performed subversive activities for the Bolsheviks throughout the Empire, for which he was exiled to Narym in Siberia where—together with Yakov Sverdlov—he set up a local Bolshevik organization. In May 1912 he fled and returned to Omsk, where he was arrested the next month, and imprisoned for a year. He was transferred to Tambov to live independently under police surveillance, but soon fled again, whereafter he spent 1913–14 encouraging civil unrest in the cities of St. Petersburg, Kharkov, and Vologda; relocated to Samara in 1917; and became president of the local soviet—a position he held at the time of the October Revolution and for the next year. During the Russian Civil War he chaired the revolutionary committee of Samara province and became a political commissar in the First and Fourth Red Armies.


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