Grigory Petrovsky

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 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, 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)
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Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Петро́вский, Ukrainian: Григо́рій Іва́нович Петро́вський, romanized: Hryhorii Ivanovych Petrovskyi; 4 February 1878 – 9 January 1958) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician 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.

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