DescriptionVyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov circa 1917.jpg
English: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (presently Scriabin) (1890–1986). Party member since 1906. Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1921-1930). At the same time, in 1928-1929. - First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (1930-1941).
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