Nikolai Alexandrovich Skvortsov

Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Skworzow ( Russian: Николай Александрович Скворцов ; * ^July 14th / October 26th,  1899 ^greg. In Zwetnoye near Astrakhan ; † January 15, 1974 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician. From 1938 to 1945 he was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh Soviet Republic .

life and career

Skvortsov was born in the village of Tsvetnoye near Astrakhan. At the age of 17, he joined the newly founded Red Guard , the fighting organization of the Bolsheviks . After the end of the Russian Revolution, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1919 . Over the years he worked his way up the party hierarchy. From 1930 he studied at the Moscow Institute for Planning and Economics , and from 1933 he was also active in the Central Committee of the CPSU. In May 1938 he was finally appointed First Secretary of the Kazakh SSR . De facto, this was equivalent to the office of the Kazakh head of government. Skworzow remained in this position until May 1945, when Gennadi Borkow took over this post.

After the Second World War he worked in various Soviet ministries until he finally retired in 1966. Skvortsov died in Moscow in 1974.