787
NAME INDEX
port Workers’ Union; later,
member of the Presidium of
the State Planning Commission
—199, 200
Nepryakhin,
Mikhail Grigoryevich
(b. 1887)—Party member from
1918. In 1919-21, gubernia com-
missar for food in Astrakhan.
In 1921-22, Chairman of the
Gubernia Co- operative Board,
Chief of the Transport Depart-
ment of the Central Administra-
tion of the Fishing Industry.
From 1922, Chief of the State
Fishery Administration—223-
24, 234
Nesterov,
Boris Pavlovich (1894-
1937)—Party
member
from
1918. From 1922, worked in
the Managing Department of
the
R.S.F.S.R.
Council
of
People’s Commissars—455, 491
Nikolayev,
Akim
Maximovich
(1887- 1938)—Party member
from 1904. In 1918-24, member
of the Collegium of the Peo-
ple’s Commissariat for Posts
and Telegraphs, and Chairman
of the Radio Council—126- 27,
169, 291, 545
Nogin,
Viktor Pavlovich (1878-
1924)—Party
member
from
1898. In 1921, member of the
International Bureau of the
Red International of Trade
Unions, member of the Supreme
Economic Council Presidium,
member
of
the
All- Russia
C.E.C. Turkestan Commission,
Chairman of the Chief Cotton
Committee—147
Noulens,
Joseph (1864- 1939)—
French politician and states-
man. In 1917-18, ambassador
to Russia. After the October
Revolution, one of the organ-
isers of the Allied countries’
intervention and counter-revo-
lutionary activity in Soviet
Russia—277, 290
Novitsky, Alexander Adolfovich
(b.
1894)—financial
worker,
R.C.P.(B.) member from 1918.
From
1921,
head
of
the
R.S.F.S.R. Budgetary Admin-
istration, secretary of the gold
and currency commission, mem-
ber of the Narrow Council of
People’s Commissars, repre-
sentative of the People’s Com-
missariat for Finance in the
Council of Labour and Defence.
In 1922, P.C.F. representative
in the Ukraine and member of
the Ukrainian Council of Peo-
ple’s Commissars, then of the
All-Ukraine Central Executive
Committee. From 1923, Chief
of the Finance Control Admin-
istration of the U.S.S.R. Peo-
ple’s Commissariat for Finance
—351, 352, 370, 460
O
Oborin,
Vasily Pavlovich (1887-
1939)—Party
member
from
1904. After the October Revolu-
tion, engaged in Party and
trade union work in Petrograd.
In 1921, secretary of the Colle-
gium of the Electrical Depart-
ment of the Petrograd Eco-
nomic Council. At the Fifteenth
R.C.P.(B.) Congress in 1927 was
expelled from the Party for
participating in the anti-Party
Democratic Centralism group
—286
Oganovsky,
Nikolai
Petrovich
(b.
1874)—statistician
and
economist.
Before
1917,
Socialist-Revolutionary.
In
1921-24, head of the Statistical
Department of the R.S.F.S.R.
People’s
Commissariat
for
Agriculture. Later, worked in
the
People’s
Commissariats
for Finance and for Trade, on
the Supreme Economic Council
and on the State Planning
Commission—551
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Okulov,
Alexei
Ivanovich
(1880-1939)—man
of
letters
Party member from 1903. In
1920- 21, Commander of the
Eastern Siberia armed forces
and member of the Revolu-
tionary Military Tribunal. Lat-
er, engaged in Soviet govern-
ment and literary work—386
Olminsky, Mikhail Stepanovich
(1863- 1933)—Party
member
from 1898, took part in the
revolutionary movement from
the early 1880s. In 1920-24,
head of the Party History
Department of the R.C.P.(B.)
Central Committee—555
Orakhelashvili, Mamia Dmitrievich
(1881-1937)—Party
member
from 1903. From March 1921,
Chairman of the Revolution-
ary Committee of Soviet Geor-
gia, then Chairman of the
Council of People’s Commissars
Secretary of the Georgian Com-
munist Party Central Commit-
tee, Secretary of the Transcau-
casian Territorial Committee of
the R.C.P.(B.). From December
1922, Chairman of the Trans-
caucasian S.F.S.R. Council of
People’s Commissars—582
Orjonikidze,
Grigory Konstanti-
novich (1886-1937)—Party mem-
ber
from
1903.
After
the
October
Revolution,
Extra-
ordinary Commissar for the
Ukraine, then for the South of
Russia. During the Civil War,
member of the Revolutionary
Military Councils of the 16th
and 14th armies, and of the
Caucasian Front. In 1921- 26,
Chairman of the Caucasian
Bureau of the Central Commit-
tee, then First Secretary of the
Transcaucasian
Territorial
Party Committee. From 1926,
Chairman of the Central Con-
trol
Commission
of
the
C.P.S.U.(B.)
and
People’s
Commissar for the U.S.S.R.
Workers’ and Peasants’ In-
spection. From 1930, Chairman
of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Eco-
nomic Council and, from 1932
People’s Commissar for Heavy
Industry—109, 110, 115, 122,
125, 147, 178, 188, 212, 313,
339, 409, 577, 582, 608
Orlov, N. A.— in 1918-19, secre-
tary of the magazine Izvestia
Narkomproda (News of the Peo-
ple’s Commissariat for Food);
in 1920-21, assistant editor and
editor of the magazine’s pub-
lishing department; then head
of the economic department of
the journal Novy Mir (New
World)
published
by
the
Soviet embassy in Berlin—403
Osadchy,
Pyotr
Semyonovich
(1866- 1943)—specialist in elec-
trical engineering. After the
October
Revolution,
Deputy
Chairman of the R.S.F.S.R.
and U.S.S.R. State Planning
Commission and Chairman of
the Central Electrotechnical
Council of the U.S.S.R. Su-
preme Economic Council—199,
431, 482
Osinsky, N. (Obolensky, V. V.)
(1887-1938)—Party
member
from 1907. After the October
Revolution, Manager of the
R.S.F.S.R.
State
Bank
and
Chairman of the Supreme Eco-
nomic Council. In 1918, sided
with the “Left Communists”.
In 1921-23, Deputy People’s
Commissar for Agriculture—
78, 87, 90, 97, 144, 226, 300,
323, 340, 406- 07, 411, 476,
551, 584, 590
Ostryakov,
Pyotr
Alexeyevich
(1887-1952)—radio
engineer.
In 1918-27, worked in the
Nizhni- Novgorod Radio Labo-
ratory; in 1921, headed the
construction of the radio sta-
tion in Moscow—280