Valerian Kuybyshev
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev (also
Kuibyshev;
Russian: Ð'алериан Ð'ладимирович Куйбышев); Born:
Omsk,
6 June, (
O.S. 25 May)
1888; Died:
Moscow,
25 January,
1935) was a
Russian revolutionist, a
Red Army military commander during the
Russian Civil War, and then a prominent
Soviet politician.
During 1928-1930 he was Chairman of the
Supreme Council of the National Economy, in 1930-1934 he was the head of
Gosplan.
The city of
Samara (the administrative centre of the
Samara Oblast, Russia) and the town
Bolgar (
Tatarstan, Russia) were named Kuybyshev after him in the period between 1935 and 1991. The town of
Kuybyshev in
Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, still bears his name.
