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Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze was an Old Bolshevik and a Soviet statesman.
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politics · Soviet politician (1886–1937) · politician · metallurgist · revolutionary · also Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Grigory Ordzhonikidze, Grigol Konstantines dze Ordzhonikidze, Gregory Ordzhonikidze, Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, Ordzhonikidze
Born 12 October 1886 · Died 18 February 1937 · Q259843
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 2 entries
Times Higher Education: Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State University for Geological Prospecting (MGRI)
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akm: P.Leonov became the owner of 5% of the Sergo Ordzhonikidze plant, N.Konovalov became the owner on 15.03%
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2020· 1 entry
akm: ACRA assigns credit rating to SEAP named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze
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1956· 2 entries
And lived a relatively quiet life afterwards
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And this helped keep rumours of a targeted killing alive
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1937· 5 entries
Died 1937-02-18.
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“For a long time I've been telling Stalin that Beria is a crook but Stalin won't listen.”
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“The Azerbaijan and Georgian republics must assume the task of supplying Armenia.”
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“The Soviet Republic hands over power and land to the poor, guarantees you all your conquests in the revolution, places in your hands all the means for defending these gains.”
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“If we pose the question in a soviet, communist fashion, then no republic will be offended. If we pose the question egotistically, it is necessary to answer directly- Azerbaijan will be hurt, Georgia to a lesser degree, and Armenia not at all... Who among you would get up and say that anything we get from the exchange of Baku oil should be refused to our Armenian comrades?”
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1936· 2 entries
Due to his poor health, in January 1936, the Politburo had forced Ordzhonikidze to limit his schedule and take more time off from his duties.
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Leading to an official acknowledgement in a 7 June 1936 Pravda article that the Stakhanovite movement had not worked out
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1933· 1 entry
Which Ordzhonikidze took a leading role in drafting
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1932· 2 entries
Vesenka was re-organized as the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (known by the Russian acronym NKTP); Ordzhonikidze remained as the head of the new commissariat
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This criticism was made public, forcing him to take up another position
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1930· 3 entries
Was transferred to lead Vesenkha, which was re-formed as the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (NKTP) in 1932
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And remained his top deputy when it became the NKTP
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When the two had opposed collectivization of agriculture
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1928· 1 entry
Had spent several weeks in Germany for unspecified medical treatments
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1927· 1 entry
“review the whole complex of the state system”
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1926· 1 entry
Ordzhonikidze was named the head of the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party, the body responsible for party discipline, and of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate (known by its Russian acronym Rabkrin),
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1923· 1 entry
The Politburo decided to remove Mdivani and his associates from their posts, which represented a conclusive victory for Ordzhonikidze and his backers
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1922· 1 entry
And served as the First Secretary of the TSFSR until 1926
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1921· 1 entry
Ordzhonikidze and Pyatakov had been political enemies, but they soon resolved their differences and established a strong working relationship
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1917· 2 entries
Saw Ordzhonikidze appointed as the Bolsheviks' Commissar of Ukraine, South Russia, and the North Caucasus
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And would adopt a daughter, Eteri (born 1923)
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1915· 1 entry
Was sentenced to permanent exile in the eastern Siberian town of Yakutsk, where he met his future wife Zinaida in September 1916
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1911· 1 entry
Ordzhonikidze traveled to Paris where he met Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolsheviks
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1903· 2 entries
When he was 17 and worked for them in an underground printshop distributing leaflets for the Bolshevik faction of the party
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And ceased to work with it, they formally remained part of it until the Prague Conference
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1886· 2 entries
Born 1886-10-12.
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In Ghoresha, a village in the Kutais Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in the Imereti region of Georgia)
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