Alexei Badayev
Soviet politician (1883-1951)
Alexei Yegorovich Badayev (Russian: Алексе́й Его́рович Бада́ев; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1883 – 3 November 1951) was a Soviet politician, functionary and a nominal head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the leadership of Joseph Stalin.
Biography
Badayev was born at Yuryevo in the Oryol Governorate of the Russian Empire in 1883 in a peasant family. He moved to Petersburg in 1903, joined the Alexander Factory as a locksmith, then worked on the railway. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904, and was an active member of the Metal Workers' Union from its inception in 1906.
From 1912 to 1914 he was a Deputy of the Fourth State Duma. In 1912–13, he also worked on the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda. In 1914, along with the other members of the Bolshevik group in the Fourth Duma (apart from the double agent Roman Malinovsky), and was deported the following year to Turukhansk. He later wrote reminiscences of this period which were translated into English as The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma.
Badayev returned to Petrograd after the February Revolution in 1917 and became actively involved in the city duma, and in the management of food distribution. After the Bolshevik Revolution he was appointed chairman of the Food Commissariat for the North West region of Russia.
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