Alexander Tsiurupa

Alexander Dmitrievich Zjurupa (Russian Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа; * 19 Septemberjul / October 1 1870greg in Aljoschki, .. † May 8, 1928 in the village Muchalatka in the Crimea ) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet economist, 1923-1925 Chairman of Gosplan.

Life

Zjurupa descended from the family of an employee. He studied from 1887 at an agricultural college in Kherson, where he had made his first acquaintance with the revolutionary movement by becoming a member of an illegal student circle. Shortly after finishing his studies, he was first arrested, but released after a few months. In 1896 he moved to the city of Simbirsk, where he was active in the local area management as a statistician. However, he soon gave up this activity on, moved to Ufa, where he was a member of the RSDLP and a little later a professional revolutionary. After he was arrested during a trip to Tula and sent for three years in the Siberian exile, he returned to the end of the first Russian Revolution in 1907 returned to Ufa and became an agronomist in the landlord farming of the social democrats sympathized princes.

That Zjurupa had a great authority within former Bolshevik leadership shown by the fact that he led the meetings of the Council of People's Commissars during the long illness of Lenin and regularly took off about him accountable. Zjurupa 1923 was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Party.

From December 1923 to October 1925, he headed the State Planning Committee of the USSR ( Gosplan ). Thereafter, he was appointed in November 1925 People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and Internal Trade, gave this post but already in January 1926 for health reasons. Zjurupa was for several years a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Soviet Republic ( from 1923 the USSR ).

The urn with the remains Zjurupas was ceremoniously buried in the Kremlin wall.

Honors

After his death, his birthplace Aljoschki was renamed Cyurupinsk.