Mikhail Rodionov Explained

Mikhail Rodionov
Order:Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR
Term Start:23 March 1946
Term End:9 March 1949
Predecessor:Alexei Kosygin
Successor:Boris Chernousov
Birth Date:25 October 1907
Birth Place:Ratunino, Makaryev Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality:Soviet
Party:All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1929–1949)
Resting Place:Levashovo Memorial Cemetery

Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Родио́нов; – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who, from 1946 to 1949, was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR.[1] He was purged during the Leningrad affair.

He created a proposal for a new state flag of the RSFSR, but it was rejected. It consisted of a traditional Russian tricolour flag with a hammer and sickle in the middle. Together with Nikolai Voznesensky, he was sentenced to death in 1950 based on accusations of embezzlement from the Soviet State budget for "unapproved business in Leningrad", which was labeled anti-Soviet treason, at the Leningrad Affair case.[2] He was a close companion of Alexei Kosygin.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rodionov Mikhail Ivanovich. The rulers of Russia and the Soviet Union. 2021-05-06. www.praviteli.org.
  2. Web site: Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad. www.bbc.co.uk. 28 December 2018.