Sergei Kirov

E35501

Bolshevik revolutionary Soviet politician human

Sergei Kirov was a prominent early Bolshevik leader and close ally of Joseph Stalin, whose 1934 assassination in Leningrad became a key pretext for the Great Purge in the Soviet Union.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Bolshevik revolutionary → Soviet politician → human →
birthName	Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov →
causeOfDeath	gunshot wound →
closeAllyOf	Joseph Stalin →
commemoratedBy	Kirov Theatre in Leningrad → cities renamed Kirov in the Soviet Union → monuments and streets named after him →
countryOfCitizenship	Russian Empire → Soviet Union →
dateOfBirth	1886-03-27 →
dateOfDeath	1934-12-01 →
employer	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) →
ethnicGroup	Russians →
familyName	Kostrikov →
givenName	Sergei →
hasInfluenced	political repressions in the Soviet Union →
ideology	Marxism–Leninism →
mannerOfDeath	assassination →
memberOfPoliticalParty	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) → Russian Social Democratic Labour Party → Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) →
movement	Bolshevism →
name	Sergei Kirov →
notableEvent	assassination in Leningrad in 1934 →
notableFor	being a close ally of Joseph Stalin → his assassination serving as a pretext for the Great Purge →
notableWork	leadership of the Leningrad party organization →
occupation	party functionary → politician → revolutionary →
participantIn	Russian Civil War → Russian Revolution of 1917 → early Soviet state-building →
patronymicName	Mironovich →
placeOfBirth	Russian Empire → Urzhum → Vyatka Governorate →
placeOfDeath	Leningrad → Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic → Soviet Union →
positionHeld	First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) → First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) → delegate to the Congress of Soviets → member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) → member of the Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) →
pseudonym	Kirov →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sergei Kirov →	name
Kremlin Wall Necropolis →	notableBurial