Vladimir Potemkin

Vladimir Potemkin
Владимир Потёмкин
Potemkin in 1934
People's Commissar for Education
In office
28 February 1940 – 23 February 1946
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Stalin
Preceded byPyotr Tyurkin
Succeeded byPosition abolished (Aleksei Kalashnikov as Minister of Education of the USSR)
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union to France
In office
23 September 1934 – 4 April 1937
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Preceded byMarcel Rosenberg (as Charges de Affairs)
Succeeded byYakov Surits
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Italy
In office
26 September 1934 – 25 November 1934
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Preceded byDmitry Kursky
Succeeded byBoris Shtein
Personal details
Born19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1874
Tver, Russian Empire
Died23 February 1946(1946-02-23) (aged 71)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
NationalityRussian
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party (b) (1919–1946)
Alma materImperial Moscow University
Occupation
  • Politician
  • historian
  • educator
  • scholar
AwardsOrder of Lenin Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Потёмкин; 19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1874 – 23 February 1946) was a Soviet statesman, historian, educator, diplomat, academic and scholar who served as the People's Commissar of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1940 to 1946.