Vasily Vakhrushev

Vasily Vakhrushev
Vasily Vakhrushev
Васи́лий Вахрушев
	Vakhrushev in the 1940s
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR
	In office; 29 July 1939 – 2 June 1940
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by	Nikolai Bulganin
Succeeded by	Ivan Khokhlov
People's Commissar for Coal Industry
	In office; 12 October 1939 – 19 January 1946
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov ; Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Aleksandr Zasyadko
Personal details
Born	28 February 1902; Tula, Imperial Russia
Died	13 January 1947 (aged 44); Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)

Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́хрушев; 28 February 1902 – 13 January 1947) was a Soviet and Russian statesman who was from 1939 to 1940 the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, literally meaning Premier or Prime Minister. Vakhrushev also was a "key figure" for KGB operations in the United Nations in New York City.^[1]

His ashes were buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

References

^ Trentoe, Joe; Roman, Dave (August 1978). "KGB in New York The United Nations Spy Battle" (PDF). CIA. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2020.

[1] Trentoe, Joe; Roman, Dave (August 1978). "KGB in New York The United Nations Spy Battle" (PDF). CIA. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2020.

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