Yakov Sverdlov
Soviet politician · Russia · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1885 to 1919 · aged 33
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A key Bolshevik organizer of the October Revolution of 1917, Sverdlov served as chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party from 1918 until his death in 1919, and as chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee...
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Sverdlov in 1904
Sverdlov's Okhrana mugshot, 1910
Sverdlov and Vladimir Lenin open the monument to Karl Marx in 1918
Sverdlov in 1918
Sverdlov and Grigory Zinoviev on The Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets
Sverdlov with his wife and son c. 1918-1919
Snow-covered statue of Sverdlov in Yekaterinburg, formerly SverdlovskAbout this person
A key Bolshevik organizer of the October Revolution of 1917, Sverdlov served as chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party from 1918 until his death in 1919, and as chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 until his death in 1919.
