11 Facts About Nikolai Bryukhanov

Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov was a Russian Bolshevik, Soviet statesman and political figure who served as People's Commissar of Finance between 1926 and 1930.

Nikolai Bryukhanov then enrolled in Kazan University, became involved in revolutionary activities again, and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902, becoming a member of its regional committee in Kazan in 1903.

Nikolai Bryukhanov was a Bolshevik delegate to the RSDLP Congress in London in 1907.

In 1907 Nikolai Bryukhanov moved to Ufa, where he edited the party's local newspaper Ufimsky Rabochiy.

From August 1919, Nikolai Bryukhanov simultaneously served as Chairman of the Special Supplies Commission of the Eastern Front and then, from January 1920 until September 1922, as head of the Main Supplies Directorate of the Red Army.

Nikolai Bryukhanov was put in charge of the People's Commissariat of Supplies in December 1921.

On May 14,1924, the Commissariat was abolished and Nikolai Bryukhanov was made deputy People's Commissar of Finance.

At the 15th Party Congress in December 1927, Nikolai Bryukhanov was elected candidate member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, a position which he kept until the 17th Party Congress in January 1934.

In letter to Vyacheslav Molotov, written at about the same time as Yurovsky's arrest, Stalin claimed that it was Yurovsky, and not Nikolai Bryukhanov, who ran the commissariat, and instructed:.

Nikolai Bryukhanov was arrested by the NKVD secret police on February 3,1938, during the Great Purge.

Nikolai Bryukhanov was sentenced to death and executed on September 1,1938.