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 Minister | Christian Rakovsky Vlas Chubar Panas Lyubchenko Mykhailo Bondarenko Mykola Marchak Demyan Korotchenko |
| Preceded by | (post revived, previously Volodymyr Zatonsky) |
| Succeeded by | Leonid 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 Minister | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Alexey Rykov |
| Succeeded by | Felix Dzerzhinsky |
| Candidate member of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th Politburo | |
| In office 1 January 1926 – 22 March 1939 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 February 1878 Pechenihy,[1] Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 9 January 1958 (aged 79) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | RSDLP (1898–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1939) |
| Alma mater | Elementary |
| Awards | Order 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, romanized: Hryhorii 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]
- ^ Петровський Григорій Іванович (1878-1958) [Petrovskyi Hryhoriy Ivanovych (1878-1958)] (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Publishing Portal. 2005. Archived from the original on 22 October 2009.
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BBCNewswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Rostyslav Khotin (27 November 2009). "Ukraine tears down controversial statue". UNIAN News. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- ^ Ignacio Villarreal (31 January 2016). "Statue of controversial Bolshevik leader Grigory Petrovsky toppled in Ukraine". Artdaily.com. AFP. Retrieved 26 February 2016.