About Mikhail Rodionov
Lived 1907 – 1950 (aged 42). Mikhail Rodionov was a Russian politician.
Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov (; – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who, from 1946 to 1949, was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR. He was purged during the Leningrad affair.
He created a proposal for a new state flag of the RSFSR, but it was rejected. It consisted of a traditional Russian tricolour flag with a hammer and sickle in the middle. Together with Nikolai Voznesensky, he was sentenced to death in 1950 based on accusations of embezzlement from the Soviet State budget for "unapproved business in Leningrad", which was labeled anti-Soviet treason, at the Leningrad Affair case. He was a close companion of Alexei Kosygin.
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Who was Mikhail Rodionov?
Russian politician (1907–1950)
When was Mikhail Rodionov born?
Mikhail Rodionov was born on 12 October 1907 in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.
When did Mikhail Rodionov die?
Mikhail Rodionov died on 1 October 1950 in Saint Petersburg.
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Mikhail Rodionov was a politician.
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Mikhail Rodionov was Russian.
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