Mikhail Tomsky

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Mikhail Tomsky
Михаил Томский
Tomsky in 1925
Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
In office September 1922 – May 1929
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Alexander Dogadov
Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets
In office 29 December 1921 – 28 December 1922
Preceded by	Pyotr Zalutsky
Succeeded by	Timofei Sapronov
General Secretary of the International Trade Union Council
In office 1920 – 3 July 1921
President	Solomon Lozovsky
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Full member of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th Politburo
In office 3 April 1922 – 13 July 1930
Full member of the 10th, 11th, 12th Orgburo
In office 16 March 1921 – 2 June 1924
Candidate member of the 9th, 13th Orgburo
In office 2 June 1924 – 1 January 1926
In office 5 April 1920 – 16 March 1921
Personal details
Born	Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov (1880-10-31)31 October 1880 Kolpino, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	22 August 1936(1936-08-22) (aged 55) Bolshevo, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1936)
Occupation	Trade unionist

Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский, born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov – sometimes transliterated as Efremov; Михаи́л Па́влович Ефре́мов; 31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader and Soviet politician. He was the Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in the 1920s.^[1]

In his youth, Tomsky worked at the Smirnov Engineering factory in St. Petersburg, but was eventually dismissed from that job for attempting to organise a trade union.^[2]

His labour activities radicalized him politically and led him to become a socialist and join the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904 and eventually join the Bolshevik faction of the party.^[2]

During the First Moscow Trial, at the onset of the Great Purge, Tomsky was implicated. He would later commit suicide to avoid arrest by the NKVD in August 1936.