In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Petrovsky.
Grigory Petrovsky
Григорій Петровський
Petrovsky in 1937
Chairman of Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (shared)
In office 1922–1938
Chairman of VUTsVK
In office 10 March 1919 – 25 July 1938
Prime Minister
Christian Rakovsky Vlas Chubar Panas Lyubchenko Mykhailo Bondarenko Mykola Marchak Demyan Korotchenko
Preceded by
(post revived, previously Volodymyr Zatonsky)
Succeeded by
Leonid Korniyets (as the chairman of Presidium) Mykhailo Burmystenko (as the chairman of Verkhovna Rada)
People's Commissar of the Interior of the RSFSR
In office 17 November 1917 – 30 March 1919
Prime Minister
Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by
Alexey Rykov
Succeeded by
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Candidate member of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th Politburo
In office 1 January 1926 – 22 March 1939
Personal details
Born
(1878-02-04)4 February 1878 Pechenihy,[1] Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
9 January 1958(1958-01-09) (aged 79) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place
Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Nationality
Soviet
Political party
RSDLP (1898–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1939)
Alma mater
Elementary
Awards
Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner of Labour (3)
Signature
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Петро́вский, Ukrainian: Григо́рій Іва́нович Петро́вський, romanized: Hryhorii Ivanovych Petrovskyi; 4 February 1878 – 9 January 1958) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician[2] and Old Bolshevik. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Petrovsky was Communist Party leader in Ukraine until 1938, and one of the officials responsible for implementing Stalin's policy of collectivization.[3][4]
^Петровський Григорій Іванович (1878-1958) [Petrovskyi Hryhoriy Ivanovych (1878-1958)] (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Publishing Portal. 2005. Archived from the original on 22 October 2009.
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^Rostyslav Khotin (27 November 2009). "Ukraine tears down controversial statue". UNIAN News. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
^Ignacio Villarreal (31 January 2016). "Statue of controversial Bolshevik leader Grigory Petrovsky toppled in Ukraine". Artdaily.com. AFP. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
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