Pyotr Mikhailovich Nikiforov

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Pyotr Mikhailovich Nikiforov ( Russian Пётр Михайлович Никифоров ; born September 30 . Jul / 12 October 1882 greg. In Ojok , Irkutsk Governorate ; † 6. January 1974 in Moscow ) was a Russian Communist revolutionary, Soviet functionaries and politicians . He was chairman of the Council of Ministers (head of state) of the Far Eastern Republic .

Life

Nikiforov came from a working-class family and had to go to work himself at the age of 12. He joined the revolutionary movement in 1901 and was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDLP) from 1904 . In 1905 he was sent to the Russian fleet in Kronstadt as an agitator . After the end of the sailors' uprising in Kronstadt , he went underground and worked for the RSDLP in various Russian cities before he took over the management of the military department of the RSDLP in Irkutsk in 1908 . In 1910 he was arrested and initially sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to 20 years of forced labor . After the February Revolution of 1917 he was dismissed and a member of the Irkutsk Soviet , then Vice-President of the Vladivostok Soviet. Nikiforow was also a member of the Far East Office of the RSDLP (B) and editor of the newspaper "Красное знамя" (Eng. The Red Flag ).

At the end of 1918 he was imprisoned by white troops , where he remained until 1920. After his imprisonment, he became a Soviet functionary in the Far Eastern Republic in 1920: from 1920 he was chairman of the Far East Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and a member of the Far East Office of the RKP Central Committee (B). From May 1920 to December 1921 he was chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Far Eastern Republic.

After the incorporation of the buffer state into the Russian Federal Soviet Socialist Republic (RSFSR) Niniforov headed the joint stock bank for electrification "Elektrobank" ( Russian Электробанк ) from 1923 to 1925 . From May 1925 to September 1927 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the Mongolian People's Republic . He then worked in the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and as Deputy People's Commissar for Supply to the RSFSR.

The life of Nikiforov served Nikolai Popov as a template for the novel Dessant Taisjo ( Десант Тайсё , 2007, ISBN 9785953320528 )

Honors

Nikiforov was awarded the Order of Lenin , the Order of the October Revolution (1972) and the Order of "Sign of Honor" .

Works

  • The strike of the dredging fleet, 1905 . Modern Books, London 1931.
  • Strike: From the struggles of the southern Russian proletariat after the revolution of 1905 . Publishing cooperative of foreign workers in the USSR, Moscow / Leningrad 1933.

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SURNAME Nikiforov, Pyotr Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Никифоров, Пётр Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet revolutionary and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Ojok , Irkutsk Governorate
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1974
Place of death Moscow