Mikhail Kalinin

Born in Verčnjaja Troica on November 19, 1875 — died June 3, 1946 (aged 70)

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926, he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.