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Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov, (born Feb. 25 [Feb. 13, Old Style], 1881, Saratov, Russia—died March 14, 1938, Moscow), Bolshevik leader who became a prominent Soviet official after the Russian Revolution (October 1917) and one of Joseph Stalin’s major opponents during the late 1920s.

Alexei Ivanovich Rykov was born on February 25, 1881, in Saratov, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire, to farmer Ivan Illych Rykov. His father succumbed to cholera in Merv, in 1889, following which Rykov was looked after by his older sister, Klavdiya Ivanovna Rykova. Klavdiya was an office-worker for the Ryazanskaya-Ural railroad.

Born in Saratov province, the son of a tradesman, Alexei Rykov joined the Social Democratic Party in 1898 and supported the Bolsheviks after their split with the Mensheviks. He played an active part in the 1905 revolution. In 1907, however, he began to work for reconciliation between the two wings of the party.

Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (25 February 1881 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. He was one of the accused in Joseph Stalin 's show trials during the Great Purge.

The place of Alexey Rykov as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was taken by Vyacheslav Molotov, who held this position for the longest term (more than 10 years) and combined the post of head of government with other positions: chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense, Defense Committee, Economic Council under...

Alexey/Alexei Ivanovich Rykov ( Russian ; Алексей Иванович Рынков ; Alexey Ivanovich Rykov : Born 25 February 1881 in Saratov, Russian Empire - Died : 15 March 1938 in Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union) was a Russian revolutionary and Premier of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1930.

Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich. Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov (əlyĬksyā´ ēvä´nəvĬch rē´kôf), 1881–1938, Russian revolutionary and Communist leader. A Bolshevik, he became commissar for the interior after the October Revolution of 1917 and a member of the Politburo in 1922. On Lenin's death (1924) he succeeded as chairman of the council of ...

Quick Reference. (b. Saratov, 1881; d. Moscow, 15 Mar. 1938) Russian; chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) 1924–30 Rykov's father was a merchant of peasant origin. He had a very impoverished childhood after his father's death when he was 8. In 1900 he entered the Law Faculty of Kazan University, where he became a Marxist ...