Leonid Krasin

Leonid Borisovich Krasin
Леонид Борисович Красин
Krasin in 1924
People's Commissar for Foreign Trade
In office 6 July 1923 – 18 November 1925
Premier	Alexei Rykov
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Alexander Tsiurupa
People's Commissar for Trade and Industry
In office November 1918 – June 1920
People's Commissar for Transport
In office March 1919 – December 1920
Personal details
Born	Leonid Borisovich Krasin (1870-07-27)27 July 1870 Kurgan, Kurgansky Uyezd, Tobolsk Governorate, West-Siberian Governorate-General [ru], Russian Empire (now Kurgan Oblast, Russian Federation)
Died	24 November 1926(1926-11-24) (aged 56) London, England, United Kingdom
Resting place	Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Citizenship	Russian Empire  Russian Republic  Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic  Soviet Union
Political party	RSDLP (1898–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1926)
Alma mater	Kharkov Technological Institute

Leonid Borisovich Krasin (Russian: Леонид Борисович Красин; 27 July [O.S. 15 July] 1870 – 24 November 1926) was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. In 1924 he became the first Soviet ambassador to France. A year later, he left Paris to become ambassador to London, where he remained until his death. He was an early and close associate of Vladimir Lenin and his financier and the first finance wizard of the Communist Party.^[1]