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It was nominally a federal union of multiple national republics; in practice its government and economy were highly centralized until its final years. The country was a one-party state (prior to 1990) governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with Moscow as its capital within its largest and most populous republic, the Russian SFSR.
21 April 1971 (age 52) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Political party. nonpartisan (since 2018), Yabloko (1999-2018) Children. 2. Alma mater. Saint Petersburg State University of Economics. Mikhail Yakovlevich Yevrayev ( Russian: Михаил Яковлевич Евраев; born 21 April 1971) is a Russian statesman and acting Governor ...
The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic ( Karelo-Finnish SSR ), [a] also called Soviet Karelia or simply known as Karelia, was a republic of the Soviet Union. It existed from 1940 until it was made part of the Russian SFSR in 1956 as the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The latter became the Republic of Karelia, a federal ...
Red Army soldiers during the 2nd Sinyavinskaya offensive operation in 1942. Vsevolod Tarasevich/Sputnik. After the defeat of the German troops at Stalingrad, the initiative in the war began to ...
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈla (j)ɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsɨɡʲɪn]; 21 February [ O.S. 8 February] 1904 – 18 December 1980) [3] was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and was one of ...
Leningrad Military District. The Leningrad Military District (Russian: Ленингра́дский вое́нный о́круг) is a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.
The Leningrad affair, or Leningrad case (Russian: Ленинградское дело, Leningradskoye delo), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s–early 1950s by Joseph Stalin in order to accuse a number of prominent Leningrad based authority figures and members of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of treason and intention to create an anti-Soviet, Russian ...
