Sergei Syrtsov

Sergei Syrtsov
Серге́й Сырцо́в
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR
In office
18 May 1929  3 November 1930
Premier Alexey Rykov
Preceded by Alexey Rykov
Succeeded by Daniil Sulimov
Candidate member of the 16th Politburo
In office
13 July 1930  10 February 1934
Personal details
Born 17 July 1883
Slavgorod, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Imperial Russia
Died 10 September 1937 (aged 54)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Soviet
Political party All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)

Sergei Ivanovich Syrtsov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Сырцо́в; Moscow, Russian Empire, 17 July [O.S. 5 July] 1893, Slavgorod, Yekaterinoslav GovernorateMoscow, 10 September 1937, Moscow) was a Soviet-Russian politician. He was of Russian ethnicity [1] and joined the Bolshevik Party in 1913. Syrtsov succeeded Alexei Rykov as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, a position he held from 1929 to 1930.[2]

He was arrested on 19 April 1937 during the Great Purge, sentenced to death on 10 September 1937 and executed the same day.[3]

References

  1. "Жертвы политического террора в СССР". Lists.memo.ru. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
  2. Syrtsov, Sergei Ivanovich in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979).
  3. "Жертвы политического террора в СССР". Lists.memo.ru. Retrieved 2013-06-12.