sergey kirov

A Bolshevik Party member and organizer, Kirov was arrested several times for his revolutionary activities before the October Revolution (1917) placed the Bolsheviks in power in central Russia. Kirov worked to extend their control in Transcaucasia; in 1921 he was appointed first secretary of the Azerbaijan party organization and subsequently helped organize the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (March 1922), which at the end of 1922 was incorporated into the U.S.S.R.

In 1926 Joseph Stalin, the general secretary of the party, transferred Kirov to Leningrad to head the Leningrad party organization. Kirov was also made a candidate member of the Politburo in 1926, and, after loyally supporting Stalin against his opponents, he was elected to full membership in the Politburo (1930). As party boss of Leningrad, he spurred the expansion and modernization of that city’s industries.


Sergey Mironovich Kirov, statue in Kirov
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