Grigory Petrovsky

Grigory Petrovsky
Григорій Петровський
Petrovsky in 1937
Chairman of Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
(shared)
In office
1922–1938
Chairman of VUTsVK
In office
10 March 1919 – 25 July 1938
Prime MinisterChristian Rakovsky
Vlas Chubar
Panas Lyubchenko
Mykhailo Bondarenko
Mykola Marchak
Demyan Korotchenko
Preceded by(post revived, previously Volodymyr Zatonsky)
Succeeded byLeonid Korniyets
(as the chairman of Presidium)
Mykhailo Burmystenko
(as the chairman of Verkhovna Rada)
People's Commissar of the Interior of the RSFSR
In office
17 November 1917 – 30 March 1919
Prime MinisterVladimir Lenin
Preceded byAlexey Rykov
Succeeded byFelix Dzerzhinsky
Candidate member of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th Politburo
In office
1 January 1926 – 22 March 1939
Personal details
Born(1878-02-04)4 February 1878
Pechenihy,[1] Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died9 January 1958(1958-01-09) (aged 79)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
NationalitySoviet
Political partyRSDLP (1898–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1939)
Alma materElementary
AwardsOrder of Lenin (2)
Order of the Red Banner
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (3)
Signature

Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Петро́вский, Ukrainian: Григо́рій Іва́нович Петро́вський, romanizedHryhorii Ivanovych Petrovskyi; 4 February 1878 – 10 January 1958) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician[2] and Old Bolshevik. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Petrovsky was Communist Party leader in Ukraine until 1938, and one of the officials responsible for implementing Stalin's policy of collectivization.[3][4]

  1. ^ Петровський Григорій Іванович (1878-1958) [Petrovskyi Hryhoriy Ivanovych (1878-1958)] (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Publishing Portal. 2005. Archived from the original on 22 October 2009.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference BBCNews was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Rostyslav Khotin (27 November 2009). "Ukraine tears down controversial statue". UNIAN News. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  4. ^ Ignacio Villarreal (31 January 2016). "Statue of controversial Bolshevik leader Grigory Petrovsky toppled in Ukraine". Artdaily.com. AFP. Retrieved 26 February 2016.