Nikolai Shvernik
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik was a Soviet politician who served as the second chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1946 until 1953. Though he was the head of state, Shvernik had very
Shvernik c. 1950
Shvernik in 1938
Mikhail Kalinin
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until h
Nikolai Shvernik
…of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR from 1944 to 1946. In 1946 he became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, succeeding Mikhail Kalinin. He only became a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (then named the Presidium of the Party's Central Committee) in 1952 but was…
Kalinin in 1940
Kalinin pictured in his hometown in 1922
Bubnov, Voroshilov, Trotsky, Kalinin and Frunze, October Revolution military parade, 1924
Kalinin's tomb in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis