Grigory Sokolnikov

Grigori Sokolnikov
Григорий Сокольников
Sokolnikov in 1923
People's Commissar for Finance of the USSR
In office
6 July 1923 – 16 January 1926
PremierVladimir Lenin (until 1924)
Alexei Rykov
Preceded byNone—post created
Succeeded byNikolai Bryukhanov
People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR
In office
22 November 1922 – 6 July 1923
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byNikolay Krestinsky
Succeeded byMyron K. Vladimirov
Full member of the 6th, 7th Bureau
In office
11 March – 25 March 1919
In office
10 October 1917 – 29 July 1918
Candidate member of the 13th Politburo
In office
2 June 1924 – 1 January 1926
Personal details
Born
Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant

(1888-08-15)15 August 1888
Romny, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Died21 May 1939(1939-05-21) (aged 50)
Verkhneuralsk, Tyumen Oblast, Soviet Union
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1905–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1936)
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University

Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov[a] (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant;[b] 15 August 1888 – 21 May 1939) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician.
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