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Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, (born May 22 [June 3, New Style], 1885, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died March 16, 1919, Moscow), Soviet Communist Party leader and government official. His organizational skills and mastery of personnel made him a key figure in the Bolshevik Party in 1917–18.

Yakov Sverdlov was a Bolshevik party leader and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Sverdlov was born in Nizhny Novgorod as Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov to Jewish parents Mikhail Izrailevich Sverdlov and Elizaveta Solomonova.

Jews in the top echelon of the Communist Party during its early days in power included Yakov Sverdlov, its executive secretary; Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Communist International; press...

The Red Terror ( Russian: красный террор, romanized : krasnyy terror) was a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine, as well as occupied territories in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Finland, which was carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police.

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov was a Bolshevik Party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919. He is sometimes regarded as the first head of state of the Soviet Union, although it was not established until 1922, three years after his death.

Jun 3, 2015. June 3, 1885 is the birthdate of Yakov Sverdlov, the Bolshevik agitator who helped Vladimir Lenin to realize his vision and was even briefly the head of state of the Russian Soviet Socialist Federal Republic. If his name is not well-known today, at least in the West, it’s probably because of his early death, at 33, under ...

Русский: Свердлов Яков Михайлович Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. * Places named after Yakov Sverdlov ‎ (3 C) S Sverdlov (ship, 1952) ‎ (18 F) Y Yakov Sverdlov (ship, 1911) ‎ (1 C, 1 F) Yakov Sverdlov in art ‎ (10 C, 6 F) Pages in category "Yakov Sverdlov"

SVERDLOV, YAKOV MIKHAILOVICH (1885–1919), Russian revolutionary and Communist leader. Born in Nizhni-Novgorod (now Gorki), Sverdlov founded the revolutionary movement in his youth. He established the Nizhni-Novgorod Revolutionary Committee on an organized basis.