Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky

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Grigory Petrowski 1937
Petrovsky's signature
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Григорій Іванович Петровський
Transl. : Hryhorij Ivanovyč Petrovs'kyj
Transcr. : Hryhorij Ivanovich Petrovskyi
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Григорий Иванович Петровский
Transl .: Grigory Ivanovič Petrovskij
Transcr .: Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky

Grigory Petrovsky ( Russian Григорий Иванович Петровский * January 23 . Jul / 4. February  1878 greg. In Petschenihy , Kharkov Governorate , Russia ; † 9. January 1958 in Moscow , USSR ) was a Ukrainian-Soviet revolutionary and politician. Petrovsky was one of the most prominent Russian revolutionaries of Ukrainian descent. In the Ukraine he is now considered to be instrumental in the Holodomor .

revolutionary

Petrowski came from a poor background. His father, a tailor, died when Grigori was three years old and so his mother, a laundress, had to raise him and his two siblings alone. After the father's death, the family moved to Kharkiv . In 1897 Petrovsky joined the " Combat League for the Liberation of the Working Class " in Yekaterinoslav, today's Dnipro , and in 1898 became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party . In 1903 he was a founding member of the Bolsheviks . Active as a delegate in strike committees he had to leave Russia after the suppression of a strike in 1906 and from June 1906 worked in a steelworks in Saarbrücken . Three months later he returned to Ukraine and went to Mariupol . Petrowski was actively involved in the October Revolution and fought between 1917 and 1919 in the Russian Civil War on the side of the Bolsheviks against the Ukrainian People's Republic .

Politician

From March 14, 1919 to July 27, 1938 he was head of state (chairman of the Central Executive Committee) of Ukraine and from January 1, 1926 to March 22, 1939 candidate of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .

In his speech at the opening of the XII. At the KPU Congress on January 8, 1934 in Kharkiv , he explicitly praised the executive party members, including Vsevolod Balyzkyj , who “cleared the backlog and achieved a breakthrough in agriculture,” a paraphrasing of the Holodomor .

From 1940 until his death he worked at the Museum of the Revolution of the USSR in Moscow. He died on January 10, 1958 in Moscow and was buried at the Kremlin wall .

family

His son Leonid Grigoryevich Petrovsky ( Леонид Григорьевич Петровский , 1902-1941) Lieutenant General was in the Red Army and his son Yuri Mikhailovich Kozjubinski ( Юрий Михайлович Коцюбинский , 1896-1937) politician of the USSR .

Honors

Petrovsky monument in Donetsk

Numerous streets and cities in Ukraine still bear his name today. A town square in Donetsk , in which there is also a monument of him, bears his name. The city of Yekaterinoslav , where he began his revolutionary career, was renamed Dnipropetrovsk after him as early as 1926. As a result of the decommunization in Ukraine in 2016, the part of the city name that reminded of him was removed and the city has been called Dnipro ever since . In Kiev , his monument was dismantled in 2009.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner , twice the Order of Lenin and three times the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

In 1979 stages of his life were filmed in the USSR.

Web links

Commons : Grigori Iwanowitsch Petrowski  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c History of the City of Dnipropetrovsk - Grigory Petrovsky , accessed December 10, 2014
  2. ↑ a b “Ukraine overturns controversial statue” BBC November 26, 2009 , accessed December 10, 2014
  3. ↑ https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/krieg-den-sternen/story/17590054
  4. ↑ Heads of Government of Ukraine on worldstatesmen.org , accessed December 10, 2014
  5. ↑ "It is imperative": the year 1933 in day.kiev.ua , accessed on March 1, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Rocket City am Dnipro, NZ newspaper of December 7, 2014 , accessed on December 10, 2014
  7. ↑ On behalf of the Center Website Donetsk ; Retrieved December 10, 2014
  8. ↑ Ukraine Renames Third-Largest City
  9. ↑ In Kiev dismantle the monument of one of the initiators of the Holodomor in "Ukraine News" from November 25, 2009; Retrieved December 10, 2014
  10. ^ Biography in the Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991 , accessed on February 1, 2015
  11. ↑ A TRAIN WITH A SPECIAL ORDER Stories from the life of the Ukrainian statesman Grigory Petrowski in 1922 ; Retrieved December 10, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Petrowski, Grigory Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Петровский, Григорий Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet revolutionary and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Pechenihy , Kharkov Governorate , Russia
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1958
Place of death Moscow , USSR