Back Sergei Kirof Afrikaans سيرجي كيروف Arabic سيرجى كيروف ARZ Sergey Kirov Azerbaijani Киров Сергей Миронович Bashkir Сяргей Міронавіч Кіраў Byelorussian Сяргей Кіраў BE-X-OLD Сергей Киров Bulgarian Serguei Kírov Catalan Sergej Mironovič Kirov Czech
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| First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijani Communist Party | |||||||||||||||||
| In office July 1921 – January 1926 | |||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Grigory Kaminsky | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Levon Mirzoyan | ||||||||||||||||
| First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 1 August 1927 – 1 December 1934 | |||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Post established | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Andrey Zhdanov | ||||||||||||||||
| First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 8 January 1926 – 1 December 1934 | |||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Grigory Yevdokimov | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Andrey Zhdanov | ||||||||||||||||
| Full member of the 16th, 17th Politburo | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 13 July 1930 – 1 December 1934 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov 27 March 1886[1] Urzhum, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 December 1934 (aged 48)[1] Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Manner of death | Assassination | ||||||||||||||||
| Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow | ||||||||||||||||
| Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1934) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sergei Mironovich Kirov[a] (born Kostrikov;[b] 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become head of the party in Leningrad and a member of the Politburo.
On 1 December 1934, Kirov was shot and killed by Leonid Nikolaev at his offices in the Smolny Institute. Nikolaev and several alleged accomplices were convicted in a show trial and executed less than 30 days later. Kirov's assassination was used by Stalin as a reason for starting the Moscow trials and the Great Purge.[2]
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