Vyacheslav Menzhinsky

Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Вячеслав Менжинский
	Menzhinsky in 1926
Chairman of the OGPU
	In office; 30 July 1926 – 10 May 1934
Premier	Alexei Rykov; Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by	Felix Dzerzhinsky
Succeeded by	Genrikh Yagoda
People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR
	In office; 30 October 1917 – 21 March 1918
Premier	Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by	Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov
Succeeded by	Isidore Gukovsky
Personal details
Born	Wiesław Mężyński; 19 August 1874; Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	10 May 1934 (aged 59); Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Political party	RSDLP (1902–1903) ; RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) ; Russian Communist Party (1918–1934)
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University

Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (Russian: Вячесла́в Рудо́льфович Менжи́нский, Polish: Wiesław Mężyński; 19 August 1874 – 10 May 1934) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman and Communist Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. He was master of more than 10 languages^[1] (including Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Persian, the last one learned especially in order to read works by Omar Khayyám).

^ Monefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar. London: Phoenix. p. 135. ISBN 0-75381-766-7.

[1] Monefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar. London: Phoenix. p. 135. ISBN 0-75381-766-7.

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