Leonid Krasin

Leonid Borisovich Krasin
Леонид Борисович Красин
Krasin in 1924
People's Commissar for Foreign Trade
In office
6 July 1923 – 18 November 1925
PremierAlexei Rykov
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byAlexander Tsiurupa
People's Commissar for Trade and Industry
In office
November 1918 – June 1920
People's Commissar for Transport
In office
March 1919 – December 1920
Personal details
Born
Leonid Borisovich Krasin

(1870-07-27)27 July 1870
Kurgan, Kurgansky Uyezd, Tobolsk Governorate, West-Siberian Governorate-General [ru], Russian Empire
(now Kurgan Oblast, Russian Federation)
Died24 November 1926(1926-11-24) (aged 56)
London, England, United Kingdom
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Citizenship Russian Empire
 Russian Republic
 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
 Soviet Union
Political partyRSDLP (1898–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1926)
Alma materKharkov Technological Institute

Leonid Borisovich Krasin (Russian: Леонид Борисович Красин; 27 July [O.S. 15 July] 1870 – 24 November 1926) was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. In 1924 he became the first Soviet ambassador to France. A year later, he left Paris to become ambassador to London, where he remained until his death. He was an early and close associate of Vladimir Lenin and his financier and the first finance wizard of the Communist Party.[1]

  1. ^ Румянцев, Вячеслав [in Russian] (2004). "Красин Леонид Борисович" [Krasin Leonid Borisovich]. Хронос (сайт)XPOHOC (in Russian). Retrieved 25 March 2021.