Lazar Kaganovich
| Lazar Kaganovich Ла́зарь Кагано́вич |
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Kaganovich on the tribune
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| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
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In office 5 March 1953 – 29 June 1957 |
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| Premier |
Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin Nikita Khrushchev |
| Preceded by | Lavrentiy Beria |
| Succeeded by | Anastas Mikoyan |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolsheviks) | |
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In office 3 March – 26 December 1947 |
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| Preceded by | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Succeeded by | Nikita Khrushchev |
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In office 7 April 1925 – 14 July 1928 |
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| Preceded by | Emanuel Kviring |
| Succeeded by | Stanislav Kosior |
| People's Commissar for Transport | |
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In office 26 February 1943 – 20 December 1944 |
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| Premier | Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Andrey Andreyev |
| Succeeded by | Alexei Bakulin |
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In office 5 April 1938 – 25 March 1942 |
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| Premier |
Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Aleksei Bakulin |
| Succeeded by | Andrei Khrliov |
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In office 28 February 1935 – 22 August 1937 |
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| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Andrei Khruliov |
| Succeeded by | Ivano Kovaliov |
| Full member of the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Politburo | |
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In office 13 July 1930 – 27 February 1957 |
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| Candidate member of the 14th, 15th, 16th Politburo | |
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In office 23 July 1926 – 13 July 1930 |
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| Full member of the 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th Secretariat | |
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In office 12 July 1928 – 21 March 1939 |
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In office 6 June 1924 – 30 April 1925 |
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| Full member of the 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th Orgburo | |
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In office 3 April 1922 – 18 March 1946 |
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In office 12 July 1928 – 1 January 1926 |
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| Personal details | |
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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich 22 November 1893 Kabany, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 July 1991 (aged 97) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Russian: Ла́зарь Моисе́евич Кагано́вич; 22 November [O.S. 10 November] 1893 – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. At his death in 1991, he was the last surviving Old Bolshevik. The Soviet Union itself outlived him by a mere five months.
Kaganovich was born in 1893 to Jewish parents in the village of Kabany, Radomyshl uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now named Dibrova, Poliske Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine). Early in his political career, in 1915, Kaganovich became a Communist organizer at a shoe-factory where he worked.
Circa 1911 he entered the Bolshevik party (his older brother had become a member in 1905). In 1915 Kaganovich was arrested and sent back to Kabany. During March–April 1917 he served as the Chairman of the Tanners Union and as the vice-chairman of the Yuzovka Soviet. In May 1917 he became the leader of the military organization of Bolsheviks in Saratov, and in August 1917, he became the leader of the Polessky Committee of the Bolshevik party in Belarus. During the October Revolution of 1917 he led the revolt in Gomel.
In 1918 Kaganovich acted as Commissar of the propaganda department of the Red Army. From May 1918 to August 1919 he was the Chairman of the Ispolkom (Committee) of the Nizhny Novgorod gubernia. In 1919–1920, he served as governor of the Voronezh gubernia. The years 1920 to 1922 he spent in Turkmenistan as one of the leaders of the Bolshevik struggle against local Muslim rebels (basmachi), and also commanding the succeeding punitive expeditions against local opposition.
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