Vladimir Potemkin
Soviet historian and educator (1874–1946) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Potemkin.
Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Потёмкин; 19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1874 – 23 February 1946) was a Soviet statesman, historian, educator, diplomat, academic and scholar who served as the People's Commissar of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1940 to 1946.
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Vladimir Potemkin | |
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Владимир Потёмкин | |
People's Commissar for Education | |
In office 28 February 1940 – 23 February 1946 | |
Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin |
Preceded by | Pyotr Tyurkin |
Succeeded by | Position abolished (Aleksei Kalashnikov as Minister of Education of the USSR) |
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union to France | |
In office 23 September 1934 – 4 April 1937 | |
Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Preceded by | Marcel Rosenberg (as Charges de Affairs) |
Succeeded by | Yakov Surits |
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Italy | |
In office 26 September 1934 – 25 November 1934 | |
Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Preceded by | Dmitry Kursky |
Succeeded by | Boris Shtein |
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Born | 19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1874 Tver, Russian Empire |
Died | 23 February 1946(1946-02-23) (aged 71) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
Nationality | Russian |
Political party | All-Union Communist Party (b) (1919–1946) |
Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University |
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