Sergey Syrtsov (politician)

Sergei Syrtsov Серге́й Сырцо́в
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR
In office 18 May 1929 – 3 November 1930
Premier	Alexey Rykov
Preceded by	Alexey Rykov
Succeeded by	Daniil Sulimov
Candidate member of the 16th Politburo
In office 21 June 1929 – 10 February 1934
Personal details
Born	17 July 1883 Slavgorod, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Imperial Russia
Died	10 September 1937 (aged 54) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)

Sergei Ivanovich Syrtsov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Сырцо́в; Moscow, Russian Empire, 17 July [O.S. 5 July] 1893, Slavgorod, Yekaterinoslav Governorate – Moscow, 10 September 1937, Moscow) was a Soviet-Russian politician. He was of Russian ethnicity ^[1] and joined the Bolshevik Party in 1913. Syrtsov succeeded Alexei Rykov as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, a position he held from 1929 to 1930.^[2] He was dismissed from this position as a result of the so-called Syrtsov-Lominadze affair ("Left-Right bloc").

He was arrested on 19 April 1937 during the Great Purge, sentenced to death on 10 September 1937 and executed the same day.^[3]

References

1. "Жертвы политического террора в СССР". Lists.memo.ru. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
2. Syrtsov, Sergei Ivanovich in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979).
3. "Жертвы политического террора в СССР". Lists.memo.ru. Retrieved 2013-06-12.