Nikolai Gorbunov Николай Горбунов |
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Executive Officer of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union | |
In office 17 July 1923 – 29 December 1930 |
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Premier | Vladimir Lenin Alexey Rykov Vyacheslav Molotov |
Preceded by | None—post established |
Succeeded by | Platon Kerzhentsev |
Personal details | |
Born | 9 July 1892 Krasnoye Selo, St. Petersburg Oblast, Russian Empire |
Died | 7 September 1938 Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
(aged 46)
Nationality | Soviet |
Political party | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
Profession | Civil servant |
Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov (Russian: Николай Петрович Горбунов) (1892–1938), was at one time personal secretary to Vladimir Lenin.
His parents were Pyotr Mikhailovich Gorbunov and Sofia Vasilievna Gorbunova. Pyotr was an honoured citizen who worked as an engineer and later as a director of a paper factory not far from Saint Petersburg. Sofia Vasilievna descended from Pechatkins' family and was a joint owner of the factory, of which her husband was a director. Both Gorbunovs' parents owned a number of middle-sized houses. In 1911, they bought an estate of about 1,650 acres (6.7 km2) in Yamburg. Pyotr Mikhailovich was a liberal who founded a school for the children of workers at his factory. His brother was the naturalist Grigoriy Petrovich Gorbunov.[1]
Gorbunov was secretary of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and wrote of the period immediately following the Bolshevik seizure of power:
In 1937 he was CEO of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[3]
Gorbunov was sentenced to death and executed in 1938.