In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mironovich and the family name is Kirov.
Sergei Kirov
Сергей Киров
Kirov c. 1930s
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
Additional positions
Candidate member of the 14th, 15th Politburo
In office 23 July 1926 – 13 July 1930
Member of the 17th Secretariat
In office 10 February – 1 December 1934
Full member of the 17th Orgburo
In office 10 February – 1 December 1934
Personal details
Born
Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov
(1886-03-27)27 March 1886[1] Urzhum, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire[1]
Died
1 December 1934(1934-12-01) (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 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 Moscow trials and the Great Purge.[2] Based on circumstantial evidence, a number of historians concluded that the assassination was ordered by Stalin.[3]
^ abcdSergei Kirov. Encyclopaedia Britannica
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^Popson, Nancy. "Who Killed Kirov? The Crime of the Century". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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