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Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov [c] [d] (/ ˈ m ɒ l ə t ɒ f /; [1] né Skryabin; [e] 9 March [O. S. 25 February] 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary who was a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s, as one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies.
Decades later, former senior officer and historian Dmitry Volkogonov [5] described how, on 28 February 1953, Stalin and a small number of his inner circle, consisting of Lavrentiy Beria, Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov and a few others, gathered together for an evening of entertainment and drinking. After the guests ...
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina [a] (born Perl Solomonovna Karpovskaya; [b] 27 February 1897 – 1 April 1970) was a Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Zhemchuzhina was the director of the Soviet national cosmetics trust from 1932 to 1936, Minister of Fisheries in 1939, and head of textiles ...
Vyacheslav Molotov served as Stalin's deputy, an informal post referred to by Sovietologists as Second Secretary, and was empowered to manage party business and sign Politburo resolutions when Stalin was away from Moscow. [4] Upon Molotov's appointment as SNK Chairman in December 1930, Lazar Kaganovich took his place as Second Secretary. [5]
The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union (Russian: Депортация корейцев в СССР; Korean: 고려인의 강제 이주) was the forced transfer of nearly 172,000 Koryo-sarams (Koryoin, also known as Soviet Koreans) from the Russian Far East to unpopulated areas of the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR in 1937 by the NKVD on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and ...
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) 19 December 1927 13 July 1930 2 years, 206 days — Ivan Moskvin ... Died in office. Semen Lobov (1888–1937) 19 December 1927
A Virginia family of four who dedicated their lives to figure skating and each other were among the victims who died in Wednesday's devastating plane crash near Reagan National Airport.. Business ...
Vyacheslav Molotov: People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs; In office 30 May 1931 – 26 September 1936: Premier: Vyacheslav Molotov: Preceded by: Nikolai Antipov: Succeeded by: Genrikh Yagoda: Full member of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th Politburo; In office 3 April 1922 – 21 December 1930: Member of the 10th, 11th, 12th ...