Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (born 1875)

Mikhail Kalinin

Soviet politician (1875–1946)

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until his death, he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of…