Vladimir Potemkin
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Vladimir Potemkin | |
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| Владимир Потёмкин | |
.jpg) Potemkin in 1934 | |
| People's Commissar for Education | |
| In office 28 February 1940 – 23 February 1946 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Pyotr Tyurkin |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished (Aleksei Kalashnikov as Minister of Education of the USSR) |
| Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union to France | |
| In office 25 November 1934 – 4 April 1937 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Marcel Rosenberg (as Charges de Affairs) |
| Succeeded by | Yakov Surits |
| Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Italy | |
| In office 26 September 1932 – 25 November 1934 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Dmitry Kursky |
| Succeeded by | Boris Shtein |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1874 |
| Died | 23 February 1946 (aged 71) |
| Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
| Party | All-Union Communist Party (b) (1919–1946) |
| Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University |
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Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Потёмкин; 19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1874 – 23 February 1946) was a Soviet statesman, historian, educator, diplomat, academic and scholar who served as the People's Commissar of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1940 to 1946.
Potemkin was born into a family of doctors. In 1893, he graduated from the Tver gymnasium in 1893 and entered the History and Philology faculty of Imperial Moscow University.
While studying in the university he was active in the student movement and distributed illegal literature among other students. He was arrested for his revolutionary activities and imprisoned in the Butyrka prison. Potemkin eventually graduated from the university in 1898 and obtained his professorship later on and became a teacher at the Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine.
Early career
From 1903, he reentered the revolutionary movement and actively participated in the First Russian Revolution. Potemkin who was a teacher of a women's gymnasium in Yekaterinoslav was expelled and sent to Moscow.
He continued his underground activities by promoting Marxist literature on behalf of the Moscow Committee of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (b). From February 1917 he worked in the department of out-of-school education of the Moscow Provincial Zemstvo Council. In this position, he was the organizer of the first workers' university in the city of Bogorodsk, Moscow province.[1]
After the October Revolution, he worked in the field of public education in the Moscow Provincial Council, participated in the establishment of the first workers' university. From 1918 to 1919, he worked in the school policy department of the People's Commissariat for Education. At Potemkin's initiative, the All-Russian Teachers' Courses were organized, and the First Congress on Public Education and the First All-Russian Congress on Extracurricular Education were convened.
In 1919, he joined the Russian Communist Party (b)[2] and until 1920 served on the fronts of the Civil War, holding the posts of a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Sixth Army, head of the political department of the Western and then of the Southern Fronts. After the war he headed the Odessa provincial department of public education, at the same time being the head of the provincial military-political courses.[1]
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