| Valerian Dovgalevsky | |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Office: | 5th People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic |
| Term Start: | 26 May 1921 |
| Term End: | 6 July 1923 |
| Primeminister: | Vladimir Lenin |
| Predecessor: | Artemy Lyubovich |
| Successor: | Office abolished |
| Birth Date: | 23 September 1885[1] |
| Birth Place: | Vasilkovsky Uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) |
| Death Date: | 14 July 1934 (aged 48) |
| Death Place: | Paris, France[2] |
| Resting Place: | Necropolis at the Kremlin Wall |
| Party: | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1908, French Socialist Party since 1915 |
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Valerian Savelievich (Saulovich) Dovgalevsky (23 September 1885 – 14 July 1934) was a member of the Bolshevik revolutionary movement, Soviet statesman, diplomat and People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.[3]
He was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1908 and the French Socialist Party since 1915.[3]
He participated in the revolutionary movement since 1904. In 1906, he was arrested and sentenced to an eternal settlement. In the spring of 1908 however, he fled abroad.[3]
In July 1917, he returned to Russia and in 1918, he joined the Red Army.
In October 1929, he signed a protocol in London on the restoration of Soviet–British diplomatic relations, which were severed in May 1927. In November 1932, he signed the Soviet–French Non–Aggression Pact. Since 1933, he took part in the work of the conference on disarmament in Geneva.
He died on 14 July 1934, in a clinic near Paris from intestinal cancer. Condolences over his death were expressed by President Albert Lebrun and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. He was cremated at the Père Lachaise crematorium. The urn with his ashes was delivered by plane to Moscow and buried in the Necropolis Near the Kremlin Wall.