Background
KUYBYSHEV, Valerian was born on June 6, 1888 in Omsk. Son of an officer
KUYBYSHEV, Valerian was born on June 6, 1888 in Omsk. Son of an officer
1905 graduate Cadet Corps. 1905-1906 studied at Military Medical Academy. 1909-1910 at Law Faculty, Tomsk University.
At the age of 16, while studying in Omsk Cadet Corps, joined the Bolsheviks and the Omsk Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Organisation From 1905 active in Saint St. Petersburg Bolshevik organisation while a student at Military Medical Academy. Spring 1906 expelled from the academic
Went to Omsk to hide from the police. Elected member, Omsk Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. 1906-1916 revol work in Omsk, Kainsk (now Kuybyshev, Novosibirsk Oblast), Tomsk, Pctropavlovsk, Barabinsk, Saint St. Petersburg (from December 1914 member, Saint St. Petersburg Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee), Vologda and Khar’kov.
Arrested November 1906, July 1908, April 1909, February 1910, November 1910, June 1912, June 1915 and September 1916. Tried three times; exiled to Kainsk, Narym Kray, Tutury in Verkholcnsk Uyezd of Irkutsk Province and Turukhansk Kray. March 1917 returned to Samara from exile.
Then head, Samara Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Organisation 1917 deleg, 7th (April) Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Conference. Helped organize armed rebellion to establish the Soviet regime in Samara.
Chairman, Samara Revol Committee. During Civil War political leader in Red Army. From July 1918 political comissar and member, 1st Army Revol Military Committee.
From September 1918 political comissar and member, 4th Army Revol Military Committee on the Eastern Front. From April 1919 member, Revol Military Committee, Southern Group on the Eastern Front. M. V. Frunze’s adviser in campaign against Kolchak.
From July 1919 directed defense of Astrakhan’ along with South. M. Kirov. Appointed member, 2nd Army Revol Military Committee. From August 1919 member, Revol Military Committee, Turkestani Front.
Helped establish Soviet regime in Centr Asia. October 1919 appointed deputy chairman. Commission for Turkestani Affairs, All-Union Central Executive Committee and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Council of People's Commissar.
September 1920 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic plenipotentiary with Bukhara government. After Civil War admin work. December 1920 elected Presidium member, All-Union Centr Trade-Union Council and head of its Economy Department.
1921 at 10th Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress elected candidate member, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). From May 1921 Presidium member, Supreme Economic Council. Head. Main Board of the Electrical Indiana.
Head. State Commission for the Electrification of Russia. 1922 at 11th Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress elected member, Central Committee. April 1922 elected secretary, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
1923 at 12th Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress elected member, Centr Control Commission. Chairman, Centr Control Commission, Workers and Peasants’ Inspection. From 1926 chairman, Supreme Economic Council.
19 December 1927 elected Political Bureau member, Party Central Committee. From November 1930 chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee. Simultaneously deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Council of People's Commissar and Labor and Defense Council.
From February 1934 chairman, Soviet Control Commission. From May 1934 First People's Chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Council of People's Commissar and Labor and Defense Council. Helped draft 1st and 2nd five-year plans.
The city of Samara was named after him.
Religion doesn't give equal treatment to women and therefore contradicts basic human rights.
Communist Party is the leading force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of all state and public organizations.
Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]
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 to 1930 he chaired the Supreme Council of the National Economy, from 1930 to 1934 he directed State Planning Committee, and he served as a full member of the Political Bureau from 1934 until his death. Kuybyshev was one of the initiators of the first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and was a member of its chief editorial board.
