Valerian Kuybyshev - Wikipedia

Soviet politician (1888–1935)

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Valerian Kuybyshev
Валериан Куйбышев
Kuybyshev in the 1930s
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
In office14 May 1934 – 25 January 1935
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy
In office5 August 1926 – 10 November 1930
Premier	Alexey Rykov
Preceded by	Felix Dzerzhinsky
Succeeded by	Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Chairman of the State Planning Committee
In office10 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 office6 July 1923 – 5 August 1926
Premier	Vladimir LeninAlexey Rykov
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Full member of the 15th, 16th, 17th Politburo
In office19 December 1927 – 25 January 1935
Member of the 11th Secretariat
In office3 April 1922 – 25 April 1923
Full member of the 12th, 17th Orgburo
In office10 February 1934 – 25 January 1935
In office26 April 1923 – 2 June 1924
Personal details
Born	6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888Omsk, Russia
Died	25 January 1935(1935-01-25) (aged 46)Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting place	Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1935)

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

Biography

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Early years

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Born in Omsk in Siberia on 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888, Kuybyshev studied at the Siberian Military Cadet School [ru], a Cadet Corps in Omsk. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. The following year, he entered the Imperial Military-medical Academy in Saint Petersburg, but was expelled in 1906 for controversial political activities.[1]

Revolutionary career

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Between 1906 and 1914 Kuybyshev carried out subversive activities for the Bolsheviks throughout the Russian Empire, for which he was exiled to Narym in Siberia. There 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 Saint Petersburg, Kharkov, and Vologda. He relocated to Samara in 1917; and became president of the local soviet—a position he held at the time of the 1917 October Revolution and for the next year. During the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923 he chaired the revolutionary committee of Samara province and became a political commissar in the First and Fourth Red Armies.

Political career

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In 1920 Kuybyshev became a member of the Presidium of the Red International of Trade Unions, which charged him with the implementation of the GOELRO plan. From 6 July 1923 to 5 August 1926 he served as the first economical inspector of the USSR (People's Commissar of the Rabkrin). From 1926 to 1930 he chaired the Supreme Council of the National Economy, from 1930 to 1934 he directed Gosplan, and he served as a full member of the Politburo from 1934 until his death. As a principal economic advisor to Joseph Stalin, he became one of the most influential members in the Communist Party. He was awarded[when?] the Order of the Red Banner. Kuybyshev was one of the initiators of the first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and served as a member of its chief editorial board.[2]

Kuybyshev died in Moscow on 25 January 1935 of heart failure at the age of 46.

In accordance with Bolshevik tradition, he was cremated, and the urn with his ashes was interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

Personal life

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Kuybyshev married several times.[3] His younger brother, Nikolay, was also an old Bolshevik and Red Army officer, but executed during the Great Purge.

Commemoration

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The city of Samara (the administrative city of the Samara Oblast, Russia), the town of Bolgar (in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia), village of Haghartsin, Armenia, village of Urasar, Armenia were all renamed Kuybyshev during the period between 1935 and 1991. The town of Kuybyshev in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, still has his name to this day. There is a statue of him in the Kuybyshev Square in Samara[4] and in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.[5]

Notes

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1. ^ In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Kuybyshev.

References

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1. ^ Slezkine, Yuri (7 August 2017). The House of Government. Princeton University Press. pp. 34–35. doi:10.1515/9781400888177. ISBN 978-1-4008-8817-7.
2. ^ "Valerian Kuybyshev".
3. ^ Nikolay Zenkovich, Самые секретные родственники, 2005, p. 205
4. ^ "Памятник В. В. Куйбышеву". Retrieved 4 February 2023.
5. ^ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 29 December 2019.

External links

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• Media related to Valerian Kuybyshev at Wikimedia Commons
• Newspaper clippings about Valerian Kuybyshev in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

v t e Premiers of the Soviet Union
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First Deputies	Kuybyshev (1934–1935) Voznesensky (1941–1946) Molotov (1942–1957) Bulganin (1950–1955) Beria (Mar.–June 1953) Kaganovich (1953–1957) Mikoyan (1955–1964) Pervukhin (1955–1957) Saburov (1955–1957) Kuzmin (1957–1958) Kozlov (1958–1960) Kosygin (1960–1964) Ustinov (1963–1965) Mazurov (1965–1978) Polyansky (1965–1973) Tikhonov (1976–1980) Arkhipov (1980–1986) Aliyev (1982–1987) Gromyko (1983–1985) Talyzin (1985–1988) Murakhovsky (1985–1989) Maslyukov (1988–1990) Voronin (1989–1990) Vladilen Niktin (1989–1990) Velichko (Jan.–Nov. 1991) Doguzhiyev (Jan.–Nov. 1991) Shcherbakov [ru] (May–Nov. 1991)
Deputy Premiers

v t e 17th Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1934–1939)
Full members	Andrey Andreyev Kliment Voroshilov Lazar Kaganovich Mikhail Kalinin Sergei Kirov Stanislav Kosior Valerian Kuybyshev Vyacheslav Molotov Grigory Ordzhonikidze Joseph Stalin Anastas Mikoyan Vlas Chubar
Candidate members	Anastas Mikoyan Grigory Petrovsky Pavel Postyshev Jānis Rudzutaks Vlas Chubar Andrei Zhdanov Robert Eikhe Nikolai Yezhov Nikita Khrushchev

v t e 16th Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1930–1934)
Full members	Kliment Voroshilov Lazar Kaganovich Mikhail Kalinin Sergei Kirov Stanislav Kosior Valerian Kuybyshev Vyacheslav Molotov Jānis Rudzutaks Alexei Rykov Joseph Stalin Sergo Ordzhonikidze Andrey Andreyev
Candidate members	Andrey Andreyev Anastas Mikoyan Grigory Petrovsky Sergei Syrtsov Vlas Chubar

v t e 15th Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1927–1930)
Full members	Nikolai Bukharin Kliment Voroshilov Mikhail Kalinin Valerian Kuybyshev Vyacheslav Molotov Alexei Rykov Jānis Rudzutaks Joseph Stalin Mikhail Tomsky
Candidate members	Andrey Andreyev Lazar Kaganovich Sergei Kirov Stanislav Kosior Anastas Mikoyan Grigory Petrovsky Nikolai Uglanov Vlas Chubar Karl Bauman Sergei Syrtsov

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