Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (died 1946)

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…

List of heads of state of the Soviet Union

The Constitution of the Soviet Union recognised the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the earlier Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Congress of Soviets as the highest organs of state authority in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) between legislative…

November 19

Day of the year

November 19 is the 323rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 42 days remain until the end of the year.