Aleksey Badaev

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Aleksei Badayev
Алексей Егорович Бадаев.jpg
Badaev in 1938
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
In office
19 July 1938 – 4 March 1944
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byNikolai Shvernik
People's Commissar for Food Industry of the RSFSR
In office
12 August 1937 – 19 July 1938
Preceded bySemyon Lobov
Succeeded byPavel Smirnov
Personal details
Born16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1883
Karachevsky Uyezd, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died3 November 1951(1951-11-03) (aged 67)
Moscow, Russian SFSR Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1951)
ProfessionCivil servant

Aleksei Yegorovich Badayev (Russian: Алексей Егорович Бадаев; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1883 – 3 November 1951) was a Soviet politician, functionary and a nominal head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the leadership of Joseph Stalin.[1][2]

Biography[]

Badayev was born at Yuryevo in the Oryol Governorate of the Russian Empire in 1883. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904, and was an active member of the Metal Workers' Union from its inception in 1906.[3] From 1912 to 1914 he was a Deputy of the Fourth State Duma.[2] In 1912-13, he also worked on the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda. In 1914, along with the other members of the Bolshevik group in the Fourth Duma (apart from the double agent Roman Malinovsky), and was deported the following year to Turkestan.

Badayev returned to Petrograd after the February Revolution in 1917 and became actively involved in the city duma, and in the management of food distribution. After the Bolshevik Revolution he was appointed chairman of the Food Commissariat for the North West region of Russia.[4]

In September 1919 Petrograd consumer commune (shortly ) was established by Decree of the Sovnarkom "On consumer communities" dated 16 March 1919. It was the germ of the cooperative sector during the "war communism". Badayev was the founding chairman of the Petrocommune governance.[5]

In the first half of the 1920s he worked as Deputy Chairman of the Petrograd (later the city was renamed Leningrad) gubispolkom (ispolkom of gubernija). He was a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party from 1925 to 1951[2] - one of only a handful of members of that body to survive the Great Purge. He was Chairman of the USSR Central Consumers' Union (), 1930-38. From August 1937 to July 1938 he was the People's Commissar of Food Industry of the RSFSR,[2] and from 19 July 1938 to 4 March 1944 he was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR.[2] He died in Moscow in 1951.

References[]

  1. ^ "Бадаев Алексей Егорович". Russian Rulers. Archived from the original on 2014-10-10.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Бадаев Алексей Егорович". Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991.
  3. ^ Shmidt, O.Yu. (chief editor), Bukharin N.I. et al (eds) (1926). Большая советская энциклопедия Volume 4. Moscow. p. 311.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Shmidt, O.Yu. (chief editor), Bukharin N.I. et al (eds) (1926). Большая советская энциклопедия Volume 4. Moscow. p. 312.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Энциклопедия & Словари >> Энциклопедия Санкт-Петербурга >> Петрокоммуна.
Political offices
Preceded by
Mikhail Kalinin
as Chairman of ARCEC
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
1938-1944
Succeeded by
Nikolay Shvernik
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