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Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become head of the party in Leningrad a…
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politics · Soviet politician and revolutionary (1886–1934) · politician · also Sergei Kirov, Sergey Kirov, Sergei Mironovich Kirov, Sergey Mironovich Kirov, Kirov
Born 15 March 1886 · Died 1 December 1934 · Q207682
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s deputy, Vania Zaporozhets, to undertake the job. Zaporozhets returned to Leningrad in search of an assassin. In reviewing the files he found the name of Leonid Nikolayev. According to another Soviet defector, Grigori Tokaev, a real oppositionist underground group assassinated Kirov. Author and Menshevik scholar Boris Nikolaevsky argued:
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“The announcer interrupted the program to say that he had an announcement of a dastardly deed to make. Then he read communiqués of the Central Committee of the party and the Council of People”
“s deputy, Vania Zaporozhets, to undertake the job. Zaporozhets returned to Leningrad in search of an assassin. In reviewing the files he found the name of Leonid Nikolayev. According to another Soviet defector, Grigori Tokaev, a real oppositionist underground group assassinated Kirov. Author and Menshevik scholar Boris Nikolaevsky argued:”
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Nature: Sergei Kirov Military Medical Academy
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine approved the change of the oblast's name to Kropyvnytskyi Oblast, or Kropyvnychchyna
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Many of the locations and buildings named after Kirov have been renamed, especially outside of Russia
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The last attempt in the Soviet Union to review the Kirov murder case was made by the Politburo Commission headed by Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev
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Khrushchev said that the murder of Kirov was organized by NKVD agents who were tasked with protecting Kirov and were shot in 1937
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Died 1934-12-01.
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Career landmark: Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1934–1934).
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Stalin wanted Kirov to come to Moscow permanently
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At the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Kirov delivered the speech called "The Speech of Comrade Stalin Is the Program of Our Party", which refers to Stalin's speech delivered at the Congress
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Azerbaijan SSR (1932).
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Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1930–1934).
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Kirov stated: "The General Party line is to conduct the course of our country industrialization
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“The General Party line is to conduct the course of our country industrialization. Based on the industrialisation, we conduct transformation of our agriculture. Namely, we centralise and collectivise.”
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Was rewarded with command of the Leningrad party organization
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Career landmark: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1921–1926).
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Kirov became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, the Bolshevik party organization in the Azerbaijan SSR
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Was arrested again and jailed for over three years, charged with printing illegal literature
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A group of wealthy benefactors provided a scholarship for Kirov to attend an industrial school at Kazan
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Born 1886-03-15.
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