Russian Communist leader, soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary, (born March 27 (March 15, Old Style), 1886, Urzhum, Vyatka province, Russia—died December 1, 1934, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)).
December 1, 1934
1904
1901

Russian Communist leader, soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary, (born March 27 [(March 15, Old Style]), 1886, Urzhum, Vyatka province, Russia—died December 1, 1934, Leningrad [(now St. Petersburg])).

Soviet politician
Russian Communist leader, soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary, (born March 27 [March 15, Old Style], 1886, Urzhum, Vyatka province, Russia—died December 1, 1934, Leningrad [now St. Petersburg]).
Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov (Kirov) was born on 27 March 1886 in Urzhum in Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire, as one of seven children born to Miron Ivanovich Kostrikov and Yekaterina Kuzminichna Kostrikova (née Kazantseva).
In 1901, a group of wealthy benefactors provided a scholarship for Kirov to attend an industrial school at Kazan. After gaining his degree in engineering, Kirov moved to Tomsk, a city in Siberia, where he became a Marxist and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1904.
