Viktor Nogin

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name = Viktor Pavlov Nogin


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birth_name = Виктор Павлович Ногин
birth_date = 1878
birth_place = Moscow, Russia
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title = Mayor of Moscow
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Viktor Pavlov Nogin ( _ru. Виктор Павлович Ногин) (1878–1924) was a prominent Bolshevik in Moscow, holding many high positions in the party and in government, including Mayor of Moscow.

Biography

Viktor Pavlov Nogin, born in Moscow, Russia, was the self-educated son of a shop keeper and a weaver by profession. In 1898 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). He was arrested and exiled several times, spending time in most of Russia's large jails. [http://www.mos.ru/wps/portal/!ut/p/c0/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9SP0o83izECfXQHMPIwODQFMTAyMXFwNnFydvYwMLc_3InNT0xORK_Qj9KDOc6gxM9QtyXBUB5pPFAQ!!?nID=6_6TBEQ7H200Q5402DD0CDBK3005&cID=6_6TBEQ7H200Q5402DD0CDBK3005&rubricId=14050&documentId=100197] The Moscow City Government]

Nogin was considered a "conciliator" Bolshevik. In 1910, following the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, he convinced the leadership to try to re-unite the party, despite strong opposition from Lenin. This ultimately failed. [ [http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bolshevik New World Encyclopedia - Bolshevik] ]

By 1917 Nogin was one of the leaders of the Moscow branch of Bolsheviks. He was a member of the Provisional Committee during the struggle against General Lavr Kornilov's failed coup in Petrograd. As Mayor of Moscow, Nogin tried to lead a peaceful and bloodless transfer of power to the Bolsheviks, hoping to avoid more bloodshed in Moscow. ["The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921", Ronald I. Kowalski, page 95] Before a session of the RSDLP Central Committee on November 1, 1917, he advocated the creation of a coalition government involving all of the socialist parties, claiming that a Bolshevik-only government could only be sustained through terror. He left government on November 4, 1917.

After he formally admitted his mistakes on November 29, 1917, Nogin was appointed to a national post, where he helped restore the nation's textile industry which had been damaged in the revolution. He enjoyed great authority in foreign trade and industry circles. In 1923, Nogin traveled to the United States to arrange a major cotton purchase. While there, he helped the Coolidge administration communicate with Moscow using the code of the Russian government, in an attempt to establish friendly relations between the two countries. ["Reform and Revolution: The Life and Times of Raymond Robins", Neil V. Salzman, page 313]

Viktor Nogin is buried in the Kremlin wall in Red Square, Moscow.

Positions held

Some of the Bolshevik party and government positions held by Viktor Nogin are listed below:
*Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet of Workers' Deputies (before 1917)
*Central Committee member at the Sixth Congress of the RSDLP (July – August 1917)
*People's Commissar of Trade and Industry in the first cabinet of the Council of People's Commissars at the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets
*Chairman of the Moscow Soviet of Workers' Deputies, succeeding Menshevik L.M. Khinchuk, who resigned (September 5, 1917)
*Mayor of Moscow and Chairman of the Praesidium of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet of Workers' Deputies (September 19, 1917 – November 13, 1917)
*Labor commissar of the Moscow Region and a deputy to the Constituent Assembly (November 17, 1917)
*Deputy People's Commissar of Labor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (April 1918)

Legacy

The town of Bogodorosk was renamed Noginsk in his honor in 1930. In 1934, the USSR Post Office produced a 15 Kopeck stamp honoring Viktor Nogin. [ [http://www.stamprussia.com/34_im.htm Russian Mint Stamps of 1934-35] ] A main station on the Moscow Metro is Kitay-Gorod, originally called Ploshchad Nogina, after the main Moscow square that once carried the name of Viktor Nogin.

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NAME = Nogin, Viktor
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Prominent Bolshevik, Mayor of Moscow
DATE OF BIRTH = 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH = Moscow, Russia
DATE OF DEATH = 1924
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