Grigory Sokolnikov
Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 15 August 1888 – 21 May 1939) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician.
Grigori Sokolnikov | |
|---|---|
Григорий Сокольников | |
Sokolnikov in 1923 | |
| People's Commissar for Finance of the USSR | |
| In office 6 July 1923 – 16 January 1926 | |
| Premier | Vladimir Lenin (until 1924) Alexei Rykov |
| Preceded by | None—post created |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Bryukhanov |
| People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR | |
| In office 22 November 1922 – 6 July 1923 | |
| Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Nikolay Krestinsky |
| Succeeded by | Myron 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 15 August 1888 Romny, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 May 1939 (aged 50) Verkhneuralsk, Tyumen Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1905–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1936) |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
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