Unlike many of his colleagues, Valerian Kuibyshev did not like to orate and never went to the people, and therefore he was never popular among the masses. V. V. Kuibyshev was a pure business executive who spent all his strength not on becoming a favorite of the party and the people, but on accelerating industrial growth in the country.
May 25, 1888 Kuibyshev Valerian Vladimirovich was born in Omsk, his nationality is Russian, a prominent party leader of the Soviet state. For services to the party and the government, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
Sometimes he squeezed
The first five-year plan, developed under his direct supervision, according to all modern experts, was pure utopia, and therefore was not implemented. However, in general, Valerian Kuibyshev (photos are presented in the article) left the memory of a man who did a lot for his country. At the same time, without particularly staining himself.
The case for the Stalinist Politburo is almost unique.
ValerianKuibyshev: the mystery of death
However, for many years the name of Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev (1888-1935) was completely forgotten. Surprisingly, even the fact that his sudden death was the result of the targeted actions of a whole team of conspirators, and this fact was established by the court in 1938, did not add fame to V. V. Kuibyshev.
Kremlin funeral
Valerian Kuibyshev died on January 25, 1935, exactly twenty days after the assassination of S. M. Kirov. The workers of the Hall of Columns of the House of the Unions, only slightly sighing that very often the Kremlin bosses began to die, prepared the room to receive the coffin with another high-ranking deceased. Fortunately, it was not far to carry it. Kuibyshev Valerian Vladimirovich worked, lived and died in the building next to the House of the Unions.
Today, the Russian State Duma sits in this building, and then in 1935 a very significant inscription “Sovnarkom” shone on the house.
His apartment was located here. It was enough to leave the building of the Council of People's Commissars, turn the corner onto Tverskaya and then again, to the right into the arch.
Memory of a comrade
Many obituaries were printed on the pages of the Pravda newspaper and other printed publications of the Soviet Union: from the Politburo, from those with whom Kuibyshev had to work, from the people and the party as a whole.
The journalist who remained unknown to anyone wrote: “The country bows its banners over the coffin of Kuibyshev, but the power of our party is indestructible, the powerheroic working class and collective farm peasantry. Let the enemies not lull themselves into thinking that this great loss will, even for a minute, disrupt our steely struggle for the final victory of communism.”
Stainless party member
As follows from archival documents, Valerian Kuibyshev (the biography of Politburo members confirms this) was not on any lists that compromised his party career. Perhaps that is why in the Stalinist Politburo Kuibyshev was not a first-class figure. A day of mourning in honor of his funeral was not declared. On the night before his party comrades prepared to see him off on his last journey, Kuibyshev's coffin was delivered to the Donskoy crematorium.
Again, because of the second rate. Only those who belonged to the highest Kremlin rulers were honored to be buried entirely in a coffin, and were not subjected to a cremation procedure.
Valerian Kuibyshev is buried next to his great friend and colleague Sergei Mironovich Kirov. It was rumored that it was the murder of the latter that greatly crippled Kuibyshev's he alth.
However, Valerian Kuibyshev's he alth was shaken back in the pre-revolutionary years. Eight arrests, four escapes, exile, including to the Turukhansk region. Constant anxiety. Living conditions are not at all resort. Few people could endure this without loss of he alth. Then the Civil War, in which Kuibyshev proved himself more than worthy. He was not noticed in extrajudicial executions, he did not participate in punitive operations, but he showed personalcourage.
Little-Known Historical Facts
B. V. Kuibyshev played an active role in the defense of Astrakhan, showing exceptional courage. There were rumors that during the bombardment of Astrakhan by British aircraft, Valerian Vladimirovich, being a deputy commander and a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the front, sat down as a gunner in the cockpit and took part in an air battle. Few of the Kremlin bosses, except for the dashing horseman Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, could boast of such a feat. However, Kuibyshev did not boast, it was not in his nature.
Big Workaholic
And also, according to the recollections of his close relatives, he really did not like to complain. It was extremely rare to hear from him that he was not feeling well. And it was almost impossible to send Kuibyshev to be treated. Although by the beginning of the 30s he was already a very sick person. The medical record says that Kuibyshev had big heart problems. The diagnosis is angina pectoris, or in the modern medical term angina pectoris.
Today, this disease is considered the ailment of overworked people. Kuibyshev was a complete workaholic and paid for it in full. His work as chairman of the Central Control Commission was both responsible and extremely nervous. Kuibyshev did not shine with he alth, but there were legends about his performance. His working day lasted from dawn to dusk.
On the weekends, the maximum that he allowed himself was to play volleyball for half an hour, and in the last years of his life - chess. After such a discharge, Valerian Kuibyshev sat down at his desk again.
How V. V. Kuibyshev died
Since the morning of January 25, he held a series of meetings. After that, Kuibyshev went to his apartment to recuperate a little before the evening meeting of the Council of People's Commissars. He was met by a housekeeper, who, seeing Valerian Vladimirovich turned pale, offered to call a doctor. Kuibyshev refused this and went to his room to lie down. However, the woman called a doctor from the medical and sanitary department of the Kremlin. When the doctors entered Kuibyshev's apartment, the owner was already dead.
Pravda reports
The autopsy was performed by the chief Kremlin pathologist Professor AI Abrikosov. The conclusion set out by him in the medical report, which was published on the pages of the Pravda newspaper, was quite predictable: “The death of Comrade V. V. Kuibyshev occurred as a result of blockage of the coronary artery of the heart with a blood clot, a thrombus, formed as a result of a pronounced general arteriosclerosis that affected especially the coronary arteries of the heart.”
Unconfirmed version
Valerian Kuibyshev was exhausted, he was seriously ill. Shortly before his death, while on a business trip in Central Asia, he caught a severe follicular sore throat. A huge abscess formed in V. Kuibyshev's throat. Everything was serious to such an extent that he had to lie on the operating table. Not cured, completely in a broken state, he returned to Moscow, and instead of going to the hospital,went to work.
Today, even a medical student will say that angina is a very insidious disease, giving first of all heart complications. This long-suffering organ of V. Kuibyshev was very worn out. The medical diagnosis of angina pectoris in those years was practically a death sentence.
Kuibyshev Valerian Vladimirovich: a brief biography of his personal life
It is known that Valerian Kuibyshev was married four times. The first companion of his life was Praskovya Afanasyevna Styazhkina, a revolutionary and one-party comrade of her husband. They met in the village of Tutury in the Irkutsk province, where both were in exile. Their marriage did not last long. The second wife of the chairman of the Samara provincial committee of the RSDLP, V. V. Kuibyshev, was secretary Evgenia Solomonovna Kogan. However, the marriage was not officially registered, however, as with the first wife Praskovya. The third wife of Valerian Kuibyshev is Galina Alexandrovna Troyanovskaya, the daughter of a Soviet diplomat and the first ambassador of the USSR to the USA.
The fourth marriage, and officially registered, was with Olga Andreevna Lezhava. Their union lasted seven years, until the death of Kuibyshev. The last wife in 1966 published a biography of Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev, in which she wrote about his great musical talent, about his love for Russian classical poets (Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov), and also published poems authored by Kuibyshev Valerian Vladimirovich. He had children Vladimir and Galina from different wives. The son was born in 1917 in the Samara prison, where Praskovya Styazhkina wasafter her arrest, who fled after her husband. Daughter Galina was born in 1919 from the second wife, Evgenia Kogan. Until the last days of his life, Valerian Kuibyshev spent all his free time with his children and Olga Andreevna Lezhava.
In memory of the great worker
To perpetuate the memory of Kuibyshev, many cities, a railway, a canal, plants and factories, collective farms, theaters and higher educational institutions, and streets of the Soviet Union were named after him.
The most beautiful city in Russia - Samara, for a very long time bore the name of Kuibyshev.
