Andrei Ivanov (Bolshevik)

Andriy Ivanov, 1920s

Andrei Vasilyevich Ivanov (Russian: Андрей Васильевич Иванов; Ukrainian: Андрій Васильович Іванов; October 28, 1888 – June 10, 1927) was a Soviet activist and politician.

Ivanov was born in the village of Kukshevo, in the Kostroma Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1906, he became a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and was a party worker in Vladimir Governorate and Moscow city.

In 1916, he worked at the Kiev Arsenal factory as a party agitator. After the February Revolution he became the head of the Kiev Governorate Executive Committee, a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and a delegate of the VI Party Congress. He was a member of the Kiev revkom during the Kiev Bolshevik Uprising and the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising. At the same time from December 1917 he was a member of the Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (CIK) and from March 1918 – a member of its Presidium.

In 1918, he worked in the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. In February 1919, he was appointed head of the Kiev Governorate, then of the Kharkov Governorate, and after that of the Odessa Governorate Executive Committees. He was a member of the Presidium and the secretary of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and a delegate of the XII and XIII Party Congresses. At the XIII Party Congress he was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b).

Ivanov in the 1920s

In 1925, he became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and spent the last years of his life in Moscow. During this time he was the member of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee, deputy to the head of the budget commission, secretary of union council, and deputy director of the Institute of Soviet Construction.

He is buried in Mariinskyi Park in Kyiv, where a monument to him was erected and a street named after him in 1927–1940 (today's Levandovska Street).

See also

• List of mayors of Kharkiv