Georgy Pyatakov

Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov (Russian: Георгий Леонидович Пятаков; 6 August 1890 30 January 1937) was a Ukrainian revolutionary and Bolshevik leader, and a key Soviet politician during and after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Pyatakov was considered by contemporaries to be one of the early communist state's best economic administrators, but with poor political judgement.

Georgy Pyatakov
Георгий Пятаков
Pyatakov in 1916
Chairman of the Ukrainian Provisional Government
In office
November 28, 1918  January 29, 1919
PresidentHryhoriy Petrovsky
(chairman of VUTsVK)
Preceded byOffice Established
Succeeded byChristian Rakovsky
Secretary of Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office
March 6, 1919  May 30, 1919
Preceded byEmmanuel Kviring
Succeeded byStanislav Kosior
In office
July 12, 1918  September 9, 1918
Preceded byOffice Established
Succeeded bySerafima Hopner
Personal details
Born(1890-08-18)August 18, 1890
Horodyshche, Cherkassky Uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedJanuary 30, 1937(1937-01-30) (aged 46)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1910–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1927, 1928–1936)
SpouseYevgenia Bosch
Alma materSaint Petersburg University
OccupationPolitician/Statesman
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