Vladimir Potemkin
Vladimir Potemkin | |
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| Владимир Потёмкин | |
Potemkin in 1934 | |
| People's Commissar for Education | |
| In office 28 February 1940 – 23 February 1946 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Pyotr Tyurkin |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished (Aleksei Kalashnikov as Minister of Education of the USSR) |
| Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union to France | |
| In office 25 November 1934 – 4 April 1937 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Marcel Rosenberg (as Charges de Affairs) |
| Succeeded by | Yakov Surits |
| Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Italy | |
| In office 26 September 1932 – 25 November 1934 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Dmitry Kursky |
| Succeeded by | Boris Shtein |
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| Born | 19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1874 Tver, Russian Empire |
| Died | 23 February 1946 (aged 71) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
| Political party | All-Union Communist Party (b) (1919–1946) |
| Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University |
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Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Потёмкин; 19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1874 – 23 February 1946) was a Soviet statesman, historian, educator, diplomat, academic and scholar who served as the People's Commissar of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1940 to 1946.