Commemorative desk medal honouring the Bolshevik and Soviet leader Sergei Kirov issued in 1977 for the 90th anniversary of his birth.

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Soviet leader Sergei Kirov photographed inspecting the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal June 1932.

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Image of Soviet leader Sergei Kirov on a 1985 Soviet postcard.

The image is from 1910 and on the back refers to Sergei Kostrikov (Kirov was his Bolshevik name) in Vladikavkaz. He started using his Bolshevik name in writings from 1912.

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On #ThisDayInHistory, #SergeiKirov was assassinated in #Leningrad in 1934. The death of a senior member of the #CommunistParty of the #USSR was used by #Stalin as an excuse to launch the #GreatPurge, leading to massacres, show-trials, and expansion of the #gulag prison system.

40 kopeck Soviet stamp issued in 1956 to mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of Soviet leader Sergei Kirov.

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Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Communist leader Sergei Mironovich Kirov was born 140 years ago on 27 March 1886.

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Soviet leader Sergei Mironovich Kirov, early 1930s.

At this time, Kirov was Secretary of the Leningrad Region of the Communist Party and a member of the Politburo and Central Committee of the All-Union Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

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Sergei Mironovich Kirov was born 27th March 1886 in Urzhum in Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire. He would become a Bolshevik revolutionary and a top Russian and Soviet leader and politician in the early Stalin era

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