Nikolai Uglanov

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov (1886–1937) was a Russian Bolshevik politician, who played an important role in the government of the Soviet Union.

• 20 August 1924 - November 27, 1928, First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party
• Aug 1924 replaced Zelensky on the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee
• 1 January 1926 elected candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 29 November 1928 — 1 July 1930, People's Commissar for Labour

In 1930 he became associated with Martemyan Ryutin, whose name was given to the Ryutin Platform. Ryutin was Secretary of the Krasnaya Presnya district Party committee in Moscow. Uglanov was expelled from the Party along with Ryutin in autumn 1932 in what is known as the Ryutin Affair.

He was executed in 1937.