Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov: Quick Facts


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Born June 3, 1885 • Nizhny Novgorod • Russia
Died March 16, 1919 (aged 33) • Moscow • Russia
Title / Office head of state (1917-1919), Russia
Political Affiliation Bolshevik
Role In Russian Revolution

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Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
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Andrey Sergeyevich Bubnov
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Soviet statesman
Frunze, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze
Russian military officer
Russian President Boris Yeltsin stands at a podium with microphones, smiling, in front of a U.S. flag during a news conference at the White House.
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Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin
prime minister of Russia
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Russian revolutionary
Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev
Soviet government official
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Russian revolutionary
Aleksandr Kerensky
Aleksandr Kerensky
prime minister of Russia
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov
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Vladimir A. Kryuchkov
Soviet politician
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Vladimir Putin
president of Russia
Sergey Yulyevich Witte
Sergey Yulyevich, Count Witte
prime minister of Russia