Grigory Sokolnikov

Grigori Sokolnikov
Григорий Сокольников
Sokolnikov in 1923
People's Commissar for Finance of the USSR
In office 6 July 1923 – 16 January 1926
Premier	Vladimir Lenin (until 1924) Alexei Rykov
Preceded by	None—post created
Succeeded by	Nikolai Bryukhanov
People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR
In office 22 November 1922 – 6 July 1923
Premier	Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by	Nikolay Krestinsky
Succeeded by	Myron K. Vladimirov
Full member of the 6th, 7th Bureau
In office 11 March – 25 March 1919
In office 10 October 1917 – 29 July 1918
Candidate member of the 13th Politburo
In office 2 June 1924 – 1 January 1926
Personal details
Born	Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant (1888-08-15)15 August 1888 Romny, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	21 May 1939(1939-05-21) (aged 50) Verkhneuralsk, Tyumen Oblast, Soviet Union
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1905–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1936)
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University

Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov^[a] (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant;^[b] 15 August 1888 – 21 May 1939) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician.
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