Mikhail Chernov (politician)

Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov (Russian: Михаи́л Александро́вич Черно́в; 20 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian politician and Soviet statesman who was executed during the Great Purge.

He was born in Vichuga, now in Ivanovo Oblast, to a family of weavers of Russian ethnicity. In 1909 he became a Menshevik and graduated from the gymnasium in Kostroma in 1911. Between 1913 and 1917 he attended Moscow University, where he studied mathematics and physics. During this period he became friendly with Dmitri Furmanov. In 1914 his daughter was born in Ivanovo.

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