| Valerian Kuybyshev Валериан Куйбышев |
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| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Voznesensky |
| Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 10 November 1930 – 25 April 1934 |
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| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Gleb Krzhizhanovsky |
| Succeeded by | Valery Mezhlauk |
| Chairman of the People's Control Commission | |
| In office 11 February 1934 – 25 January 1935 |
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| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Antipov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 June 1888 Omsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 January 1935 (aged 46) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) |
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (Russian: Валериа́н Влади́мирович Ку́йбышев (1888-1935), was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army officer, and prominent Soviet politician.
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Kuybyshev was born in Omsk in the Russian Empire on 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1888. He studied at the Omsk Military Cadet School. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. The following year, he entered a military medical academy, but was expelled in 1906 for controversial political activities.
Between 1906-14 Kuybyshev performed subversive activities for the Bolsheviks throughout the Empire, for which he was exiled to Narym in Siberia where—together with Yakov Sverdlov—he set up a local Bolshevik organization. In May 1912 he fled and returned to Omsk, where he was arrested the next month, and imprisoned for a year. He was transferred to Tambov to live independently under police surveillance, but soon fled again, whereafter he spent 1913-14 encouraging civil unrest in the cities of St. Petersburg, Kharkov, and Vologda; relocated to Samara in 1917; and became President of the the local soviet—a position he held at the time of the October Revolution and for the next year. During the Russian Civil War he chaired the revolutionary committee of Samara province and became a political commissar in the First and Fourth Red Armies.
In 1920 Kuybyshev was elected a member of Presidium of the Red International of Trade Unions, which charged him with the implementation of the GOELRO plan. From 1926–1930 he chaired the Supreme Council of the National Economy, 1930–1934 directed Gosplan, and served as a full member of the Politburo from 1934 until his death. As a principal economic advisor to Joseph Stalin, he was one of the most influential members in the Communist Party.
Kuybyshev died in Moscow on January 25, 1935 of heart failure—which his physicians deliberately exacerbated, on orders of NKVD director Genrikh Yagoda, as it was revealed during the Trial of the Twenty-One in 1938—in Moscow in 1935, days after proposing an investigation of the Sergei Kirov case. At the height of the Great Purge, in 1937, his wife and brother were executed by firing squad under obscure charges.
As Bolshevik tradition had established, he was buried outside of the Kremlin walls.
Kuybyshev married twice, but never had any children. He was a practiced musician and poet. One of his wife was a niece of Yevgenia Bosch, Galina Aleksandrovna Troyanovskaya.
The city of Samara (the administrative city of the Samara Oblast, Russia), the town Bolgar (Republic of Tatarstan, Russia), and Haghartsin, Armenia were named Kuybyshev after him during the period between 1935 and 1991. The towns of Kuybyshev in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, and Kuybyshev, Armenia, still have his name.
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