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    Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1885 – 16 March 1919) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician who served as Chairman of the...
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    documented that the order to assassinate the imperial family came from Yakov Sverdlov in Moscow. According to Leon Trotsky's diaries, Lenin supported and...
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    order to the government in Moscow, specifically Vladimir Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov, who wanted to prevent the rescue of the imperial family by the approaching...
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    Yakov Sverdlov', (Russian: Яков Свердлов) is a 1940 Soviet biographical drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. The film tells about the life and work...
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  • Look up Sverdlov in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sverdlov may refer to Yakov Sverdlov, who was a Bolshevik party administrator. Sverdlov may also refer...
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    World War I. She joined the Bolsheviks in November 1917 and was renamed Yakov Sverdlov in 1923. She was a training ship when Operation Barbarossa began, but...
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    Abakovsky. This was the last mass burial in the ground of Red Square. Yakov Sverdlov, who died in 1919, allegedly from the Spanish flu, was buried in an...
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  • Springer Yakov Sverdlov, Bolshevik party leader and official of the Russian Soviet Republic Yakov Tolstikov, Russian distance runner Yakov-Yan Toumarkin...
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  • anti-semitic purge during the last years of Joseph Stalin. Andrei Sverdlov's father, Yakov Sverdlov was one of the main organisers of the October Revolution,...
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    Soviet Union, the city was renamed Sverdlovsk after the Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlov. During the Soviet era, Sverdlovsk was turned into an industrial and...
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