From April 3, 1922 to February 10, 1934 - General Secretary, then - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from December 19, 1930, after Vyacheslav Molotov took the post of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instead of Alexei Rykov, the de facto leader of the USSR. Marshal of the Soviet Union, Generalissimo of the Soviet Union. People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee Born: December 18, 1878, Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire

Died: March 5, 1953 (aged 74), Near Dacha, Volynskoye, Kuntsevsky District, Moscow Region, RSFSR, USSR.