Unlike many of his colleagues, Valerian Kuibyshev loved to orate and never went to the people, but because the masses have never been popular.Kuibyshev was pure business executive who has spent all his strength not to become the darling of the Party and the people, and the acceleration of industrial growth in the country.
May 25, 1888 was born in Omsk, Valerian Kuibyshev Putin, his nationality - Russian, a prominent party leader of the Soviet state.For services to the party and the government was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
times he pinch
first five-year plan developed under his direct supervision, according to all the modern experts, it was pure utopia, and therefore has not been fulfilled.Overall, however, Valerian Kuibyshev (photos are presented in the article) left a memory of a man who did a lot for his country.At the same time, is not particularly disgraced himself.
case for Stalin's Politburo virtually unique.
Valerian Kuibyshev: the mystery of death
Nevertheless, for many years the name of Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev (1888-1935) stayed in oblivion.Amazingly, even the fact that his sudden death was the result of deliberate action of a team of conspirators, and this fact has established the court in 1938, did not add Kuibyshev fame.
Kremlin funeral
Valerian Kuibyshev died on January 25, 1935, exactly twenty days after the assassination of Kirov.Employees of the Hall of Columns of the Union House, only a little sigh, that very often the Kremlin bosses began to die, and prepared a room for reception of the coffin with another high-ranking dead.Fortunately, that was to carry him far.Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev worked, lived and died in a nearby building with the House of Unions.
Today, this building meets Russian State Duma, and then in 1935 at the house shone very large inscription "People's Commissars."
his apartment was located here.It was enough to leave the building of the CPC, turned the corner on the Tverskaya and then again to the right into the arch.
memory of Comrade
The newspaper "Pravda" and other publications of the Soviet Union have been printed numerous obituaries from the Politburo, from those with whom Kuibyshev had to work, the people and the party as a whole.
remaining an unknown journalist wrote: "The country is leaning over the coffin Kuibyshev its banner, but the invincible might of our Party, the power of the heroic working class and collective farmers.Let the enemies do not lull yourself that this is a great loss for a moment violate our steel fight for the final victory of communism. "
unblemished party member
As the archival documents, Valerian Kuibyshev (biography of the Politburo confirms it) in any lists of compromising his party career, he was not.Perhaps that is why in Stalin's Politburo Kuibyshev was not a first-class value.Day of mourning in honor of his funeral was not announced.The night before the party comrades prepared to hold his funeral, the coffin was taken to the Kuibyshev Don crematorium.
Again, because of inferiority.Only those who belonged to the highest rulers of the Kremlin, was honored to be buried entirely in a coffin, and not subjected to the procedure of cremation.
Valerian Kuibyshev was buried next to his great friend and colleague Sergei Kirov.It was said that it was the murder of the last heavily crippled health Kuibyshev.
However, Valerian Kuibyshev's health deteriorated more in pre-revolutionary years.Eight arrests, four escape, exile, including in the Turukhansk region.The constant hassle.The living conditions are not the resort.Few lossless health could make such.After the Civil War, in which the Kuibyshev proved himself more than worthy.The extrajudicial executions has not been noticed in the punitive operations was not involved, but demonstrated personal bravery.
little known historical facts
Kuibyshev played an active role in the defense of Astrakhan, showing extraordinary courage.It was rumored that the British aircraft bombarded Astrakhan, Valerian Vladimirovich, as deputy commander and member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the front and sat down as the arrow in the cockpit and took part in a dogfight.Few of the Kremlin bosses, excluding dashing conic Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, could boast of such a feat.However, Kuibyshev, and boasted, it not in his nature was.
Big workaholic
And yet, according to the recollections of his relatives, he did not like to complain.From it was extremely rare to hear that he was unwell.And it was almost impossible to send Kuibyshev treated.Although the beginning of the 30s he was a very sick man.The medical record is written that Kuibyshev had big problems with the heart.The diagnosis of angina pectoris, or in modern medical term angina.
Today this disease is considered an illness overburdened people.Kuibyshev was a complete workaholic and paid for it in full.His work as chairman of the Central Control Commission and was responsible, and extremely nervous.Health Kuibyshev did not shine, but his performance was legendary.The working day had lasted from dawn to dusk.
On weekends, the maximum that he allowed himself, it is half an hour to play volleyball, but in the last years of his life - a game of chess.After such a discharge Valerian Kuibyshev again sat down at the desk.
died Kuibyshev
On the morning of January 25, he held a number of meetings.After that Kuibyshev went to his apartment to recuperate a little before the evening meeting of the CPC.He met a maid who saw turned pale Valerian Vladimirovich, offered to call a doctor.Kuibyshev responded to this failure and went to her room to lie down.However, the woman called a doctor from the medical and sanitary control of the Kremlin.When the doctor entered the apartment of Kuibyshev, the owner was already dead.
newspaper "Pravda" reported
autopsy conducted Kremlin chief pathologist Professor A. Abrikosov.The conclusions set out in his medical report, which was published in the newspaper "Pravda", was quite predictable: "The death of Comrade Kuibyshev was due to the blockage of coronary arteries svёrtkom blood clot, formed as a result of a pronounced general arteriosclerosis hitIt is particularly the coronary arteries of the heart. "
unconfirmed version
Valerian Kuibyshev was exhausted, he was seriously ill.Shortly before his death, being a business trip to Central Asia, he contracted a bad tonsillitis.Throat Kuibyshev in a huge abscess.Everything was serious to the extent that he had to lie down on the operating table.Not recovered, it is in a broken state, he returned to Moscow, and instead of going to the hospital, went to work.
Today, even medical student will tell you that a sore throat - a very insidious disease, giving first heart complications.This suffering organ in Kuibyshev was very old.Medical diagnosis of angina pectoris in those years was practically a sentence.
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev: a brief biography of privacy
known that Valerian Kuibyshev was married four times.The first companion of his life was Praskovya Afanasevna Styazhkina, revolutionary and one-party comrade of her husband.They met in the village Tutura in Irkutsk province, where both were in exile.Their marriage sneaky long.The second wife of the chairman of the Samara Provincial Committee RSDLP Kuibyshev became secretary Yevgeny Kogan Solomonovna.However, the marriage was not officially registered, however, as his first wife Praskovya.The third wife of Valerian Kuibyshev - Galina Troyanovskaya, the daughter of a Soviet diplomat and the first Soviet ambassador to the United States.
fourth marriage, with formalized, was with Olga A. Lezhava.Their union lasted seven years, until his death Kuibyshev.Last spouse in 1966 published a biography of Valerian V. Kuibyshev in which he wrote about his great musical endowments, about the love of Russian classical poets (Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov) and published poems, the author of which was Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev.Children Vladimir and Galina were with him from different wives.Son was born in 1917 in Samara prison where Praskovya Styazhkina was after the arrest, she fled after her husband.Daughter Galina was born in 1919 from the second wife of Eugene Kogan.Until the last days of his life Valerian Kuibyshev all his free time to spend with their children, and Olga A. Lezhava.
In memory of the great worker
to perpetuate the memory of Kuibyshev his name were called many cities, railway, canal, factories, farms, theaters and universities, and the streets of the Soviet Union.The beautiful city of Russia - Samara, a very long time bore the name of Kuibyshev.
