Sergei Kirov
1886 – 1934 · aged 48
Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)
- Born
- 1886 · Urzhum
- Died
- 1 Dec 1934 · Saint Petersburg
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- 1886BornBorn in Urzhum
- 1921 – 1926RoleFirst Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan
- 1930 – 1934RoleMember of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
- 1932AwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour of the Azerbaijan SSR
- 1934RoleSecretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 1 Dec 1934DiedDied in Saint Petersburg
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1886 – 1934).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Sergei Mironovich Kirov (born Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become head of the party in Leningrad and a member of the Politburo.
On 1 December 1934, Kirov was shot and killed by Leonid Nikolaev at his offices in the Smolny Institute. Nikolaev and several alleged accomplices were convicted in a show trial and executed less than 30 days later. Kirov's assassination was used by Stalin as a reason for starting the Moscow trials and the Great Purge.
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