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Narkomfin
The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (), known prior to 1946 as the People's Commissariat for Finance (), or shortened to Narkomfin, was part of the government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 until the fall of the USSR in 1991. It was subordinate to the Ministry of Finance of the USSR. History The Narkomfin commissar was part of Sovnarkom. Nikolai Krestinsky was the first commissar, appointed in 1918. However, following the introduction of the New Economic Policy, Narkomfin was made responsible for Gosbank, the State Bank of the RSFSR and then the Soviet Union. On 26 November 1921, Lenin issued a note calling for the appointment of Grigory Sokolnikov, who took control of the organisation in 1922, although his formal position was not ratified until December 1922. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Finance (Soviet Union)
The Ministry of Finance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (), formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. Until 1946 it was known as the People's Commissariat for Finance ( – ''Narodnyi komissariat finansov'', or "Narkomfin"). Narkomfin, at the all-Union level, was established on 6 July 1923 after the signing of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, and was based upon the People's Commissariat for Finance of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) formed in 1917. The Ministry was led by the Minister of Finance, prior to 1946 a Commissar, who was nominated by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and then confirmed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The minister was a member of the Council of Ministers. During the Russian Civil War, and immediately afterwards, the Commissariat usually confiscated property to support government operations. Following a short period of stability after the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin
Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin, alternatively transliterated as Miliutin (, – 4 October 1942) was a Russian trade union and Bolshevik activist, participant in the October Revolution in Petrograd and Soviet statesman and architect. After the revolution Milyutin held various executive appointments in Soviet Russia related to social security, urban and central planning and finance; reaching that of Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR in 1924–1929. Milyutin is, however, remembered as an urban planner and an amateur architect, author of '' Sotsgorod'' concept, and as the editor of '' Sovetskaya arkhitektura'' magazine in 1931–1934.Bocharov, Khan-Magomedov 2007 p. 11 Biography Milyutin was born in Saint Petersburg; his grandfather was a port stevedore, his father a fisherman and fishmonger of noble origins who also attempted to return to farming and work in the port; after Nikolay's birth he was injured at work and lived the remainder of his life on a disability pension, then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosbank
The State Bank of the USSR (), known as the State Bank of the RSFSR from 1921 to 1923, and commonly referred to as Gosbank (), was the central bank and main component of the single-tier banking system of the Soviet Union. It replaced the State Bank of the Russian Empire, and following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was absorbed by the Central Bank of Russia in 1992. Gosbank was one of the three main Soviet economic authorities, the other two being Gosplan (the State Planning Committee) and Gossnab (the State Committee for Material Technical Supply). It closely collaborated with the Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union), Soviet Ministry of Finance to prepare the national state budget. History The foundation of the bank was part of the implementation of the New Economic Policy (NEP), following the monetary dislocation and barter economy during the Russian Civil War. On , the All-Russian Central Executive Committee passed a resolution for the founding of the State Bank of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigori Sokolnikov
Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Yankelevich Brilliant; 15 August 1888 – 21 May 1939) was a Russian revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Born to a Jewish family in Romny (now in Ukraine), Sokolnikov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905, and was active as a Bolshevik during the 1905 Revolution. He was exiled to Siberia from 1907 to 1909, when he escaped to Western Europe, and obtained a doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne. In 1917, Sokolnikov returned to Russia and was elected to the party's Central Committee, and following the October Revolution, oversaw the nationalisation of banks, was a member of the delegation at the negotiations for the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and served as political commissar during the Russian Civil War. He served as the People's Commissar for Finance from 1922 to 1926 before being demoted to lower positions due to his opposition to Stalin's rise to power. In 1936, Sokolnikov was arrested during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (, ; – 10 May 1934) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who served as chairman of the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union, from 1926 to 1934. Born to Polish parents in Saint Petersburg, Menzhinsky joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902. He emigrated from Russia in 1907, and spent the next decade in Europe and the United States. After the 1917 February Revolution, he joined the Cheka in 1919, and in 1923 was promoted to its deputy under Felix Dzerzhinsky. After his death in 1926, Menzhinsky became head of the Cheka's successor, the OGPU. He worked to crush resistance in the countryside during Joseph Stalin's forced agricultural collectivization. Early life Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, a member of the Polish nobility, was born into an Orthodox Christian Polish-Russian family of teachers. His father was a Russified Pole and a history lecturer. His mother was a woman of letters who sympathised with the revolutionarie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidore Gukovsky
Isidor Emmanuilovich Gukovsky (; 25 May 1871 – 16 August 1921) was a Russian revolutionary who was a People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR following the Russian Revolution. Isidor was the son of a merchant, who became a chemist's assistant. In 1898, he started participating in the ''Group of Workers Revolutionaries''. He a later became a member of the Menshevik faction of the RSDLP. He was imprisoned for inciting the Izhorskiye workers to strike. In 1904 he went to Baku, and used the name Theodor Izmaylovich for his political work. By 1906 he was secretary of the newspaper '' New Life''. He then went to Odessa before travelling abroad. In 1907, he returned to Russia, was arrested, again brought to trial but acquitted (1908). He settled in Moscow. After the October Revolution he became a Bolshevik and was appointed finance minister where he advocated for a plan similar to the New Economic Policy, then plenipotentiary representative of Russia in Estonia. He was accused o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Krestinsky
Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky (; 13 October 1883 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician who served as the Responsible Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Born in Mogilev to a Ukrainian family, Krestinsky studied law at Saint Petersburg Imperial University, where he embraced revolutionary politics. He became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1903, and two years later he supported Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction following the RSDLP split. Repeatedly arrested, he was exiled to the Urals in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. After the 1917 February Revolution brought an end to the monarchy, Krestinsky led the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg before returning to Petrograd. He was named People's Commissar for Finance and elected to the first Politburo. After the death of Yakov Sverdlov, Krestinsky also served as Responsible Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. Krest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emblem Of The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was adopted on 10 July 1918 by the Government of the Soviet Union, and had been modified several times afterwards. It shows wheat as the symbol of agriculture, a rising sun to symbolize the republic's future, the red star as well as the hammer and sickle for the victory of communism and the "world-wide socialist community of states". Like other state emblems of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Soviet Union state motto "Workers of the world, unite!" (in Russian language, Russian: ) is embedded in the coat of arms. The acronym shown above the hammer and sickle reads PCCP, for . Similar emblems were used by the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics (ASSR) within the Russian SFSR; the main differences were generally the use of the republic's acronym and the presence of the motto in the languages of the titular nations (with the exception of the Emblem of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, state emblem of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miron Vladimirov
Miron or Mirón may refer to: * Miron (name) Miron () is a given name. In the countries with the dominant Christian Orthodox church the given name ''Miron'' was a local variant of the Greek name Myron (given name), Myron. In French-speaking countries ''Miron'' is a surname of unrelated origin ... * Miron (surname) * El Mirón, a municipality in Ávila, Castile and León, Spain * El Mirón Cave, in the upper Asón River valley, Cantabria, Spain * 17049 Miron, 1 minor planet See also * Miron Costin (other) * Collado del Mirón, a municipality in Ávila, Castile and León, Spain {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vnesheconombank (USSR)
The Foreign Trade Bank of the USSR (, abbreviated Внешторгбанк, Latinized Vneshtorgbank) was the monopoly state credit institution for trade finance in the Soviet Union. It was initially established in 1922 as the Russian Commercial Bank (Рускомбанк / Roskombank) and reorganized as Vneshtorgbank in 1924. In 1988, it was reorganized as the Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR () or Vnesheconombank. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Vnesheconombank's operations in the post-Soviet states became new institutions such as in Belarus, the Bank of Estonia, Alem Bank in Kazakhstan, or Ukreximbank in Ukraine. The Russian Vnesheconombank defaulted in 1992 and, after multiple restructurings, eventually became VEB.RF. Roskombank The Russian Commercial Bank was the first foreign-trade bank established in the Russian Soviet Republic and was allowed to carry out all common banking transactions, including transactions in foreign currencies and precious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Yakovleva (politician)
Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva (; ( – 11 September 1941) was a prominent Bolshevik party member and Soviet government official who later supported Leon Trotsky's attempt to democratize the party. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1938 for membership in a "diversionary terrorist organization." She was later shot in the Medvedev Forest massacre in Oryol. Early life Yakovleva was born in December 1884 in Moscow to the middle-class family of a tradesman of Jewish descent. Her father was a convert to Orthodox Christianity. She joined the Bolsheviks in January 1904, aged 19, as a student at a women's college in Moscow, where she was studying mathematics and physics, and was immediately involved in the illegal distribution of party literature. During the 1905 Revolution, she was violently assaulted on the breasts, which damaged her health, and was a cause of the tuberculosis that she later contracted in exile in Siberia. She was first arrested in 1906, and again in 1907, and bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
