Vasily Vakhrushev | |
Order: | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR |
Term Start1: | 29 July 1939 |
Term End1: | 2 June 1940 |
Premier1: | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Predecessor1: | Nikolai Bulganin |
Successor1: | Ivan Khokhlov |
Order2: | People's Commissar for Coal Industry |
Term Start2: | 12 October 1939 |
Term End2: | 19 January 1946 |
Premier2: | Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin |
Predecessor2: | Position established |
Successor2: | Aleksandr Zasyadko |
Birth Date: | 28 February 1902 |
Birth Place: | Tula, Imperial Russia |
Death Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Soviet |
Party: | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
Resting Place: | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́хрушев; 28 February 1902 - 13 January 1947) was a Soviet and Russian statesman who was from 1939 to 1940 the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, literally meaning Premier or Prime Minister. Vakhrushev also was a "key figure" for KGB operations in the United Nations in New York City.[1]
His ashes were buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.