Background
MEZHLAUK, Valeriy was born on February 7, 1893 in Khar'kov. Son of a teacher.
MEZHLAUK, Valeriy was born on February 7, 1893 in Khar'kov. Son of a teacher.
Graduate History and Philology Faculty and Law Faculty, Khar’kov University.
1907 joined revol movement. Member, Khar’kov Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee and Khar’kov Soviet. Helped organize Red Guards in Ukraine.
1918 People's Commissar of Finance of Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic. Member, Donetsk Oblast Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. Member, Donetsk Military Headquarters.
1918-1920 military comissar for Kazan’ Province. Member, Revol Military Councils of 5th, 10th, 14th and 2nd Armies. Member, Revol Military Council of Southern Front.
Ukraine People's Commissar of Military Affairs. Member, Revol Military Council of Tula Fortified Area. 1920-1924 exec railroad work.
Comissar, Moscow-Baltic, Moscow-Kursk and Northern Railroads. Deputy chief of means of communication. Collegium member, People's Commissariat of Means of Communication.
1924-1926 Presidium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Economic Council and deputy chairman, Main Metal Indiana Board. 1926-1931 head, Main Metal Indiana Board and deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Economic Council. 1931-1934 first deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee.
1934-1937 deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Council of People's Commissar and chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee. Also deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Labor and Defense Council. From February 1937 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissar of Heavy Indiana.
From October 1937 deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Council of People's Commissar and chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee. 1937 member, Economy Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Council of People's Commissar. 1919 elected member, All-Ukraine Central Executive Committee.
1927-1929 member, All-Russian Central Executive Committee. 1927-1937 member Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee. November 1937 candidate in elections to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet.
1927 from candidate member, from 1934 member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Wrote pamphlets and articles on industrialization of Soviet economics. Executive ed, newspaper “Za industrializatsiyu".
Lectured on ‘The Plan and Planning” at the High School for Party Organizers, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1933 presented paper at World Economy Conference, London. 2 December 1937 arrested by State Security organs.
Religion is an instrument of the ruling classes to instill in the masses the religious conviction that their current suffering will lead to eventual happiness.
Communist Party is the leading force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of all state and public organizations.
Communist Party member from 1917.