Sergei Lukyani Lukashin (; , born Sargis Srapionyan (Սրապիոնյան); 1883 or 1885 – 1937) was an

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politician and

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statesman.

Biography

Lukashin was born in 1883 or 1885Borys Lewytzkyj
''The Stalinist terror in the thirties: documentation from the Soviet press''
(Vol. 126 of

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. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.) Hoover Institution Press, 1974 p 490 in the Armenian-populated city of New Nakhichevan near

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in Russia. He studied law at the Petersburg University and graduated in 1910. At first a supporter of the

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, he joined the

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in 1906. He participated in the Bolsheviks' armed rebellion during the

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, after which he fought on the

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in the Don region. In 1918 he worked in the

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and as the secretary of the Moscow regional bureau of the Bolshevik Party. In 1919 he returned to the Don region and occupied various positions there until 1921. From 1921 to 1922 he was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia. Between 1922 and 1925 was the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Armenian SSR (equivalent of a Prime Minister). He oversaw the normalization of conditions and the first steps of industrialization in the

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, which was suffering from a severe refugee crisis, famine, and disease in the early 1920s. From 1925 to 1928 he was Vice Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the

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and occupied various ministerial positions. From 1928 to 1937 he occupied various positions at the union level having to do with construction and heavy industry. He was arrested and executed in 1937 during the

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. A number of settlements, streets, and schools in

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are named after him.

References

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