Lazar Kaganovich

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Lazar Kaganovich was a powerful Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for his key role in brutal policies of collectivization and political repression in the USSR.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician
Stalinist politician
human
awardReceived Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
burialPlace Kuntsevo Cemetery
closeAssociateOf Joseph Stalin
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1893-11-22
dateOfDeath 1991-07-25
ethnicGroup Jewish
familyName Lazar Kaganovich self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kaganovich
givenName Lazarus of Bethany
surface form: Lazar
languageSpoken Russian
Yiddish
memberOf Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

Communist Party of the Soviet Union
notableFor involvement in the Great Purge
oversight of Moscow Metro construction
role in forced collectivization in the Soviet Union
role in political repression in the Soviet Union
role in the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine
participatedIn Great Purge
Russian Civil War
collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union
placeOfBirth Kabany
Kiev Governorate
Russian Empire
placeOfDeath Moscow
Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Soviet Union
politicalAlignment Stalin era
surface form: Stalinism
positionHeld Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
First Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee
First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party
People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union
People's Commissar for Transport of the Soviet Union
member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
religion atheism
state atheism
residence Moscow
sexOrGender male
sibling Mikhail Kaganovich
Mikhail Kaganovich
surface form: Yuli Kaganovich
workLocation Kyiv
Moscow

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Lazar Kaganovich familyName Lazar Kaganovich self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kaganovich
Holodomor significantPerson Lazar Kaganovich