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
President	Alexei Badayev
Preceded by	Nikolai Bulganin (1938)
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
Party	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)

Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́хрушев; 28 February 1902 – 13 January 1947) was a Soviet and Russian politician who was from 1939 to 1940 the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, equivalent to Prime Minister. He was also the People's Commissar for Coal Industry from 1939 to 1946.^[1] His ashes were buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

He was born in Tula as the son of a worker from the city. After graduating from secondary school, he pursued a career as a locksmith.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Исторический архив (in Russian). Izd-vo "LIT ". 2016. p. 32. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
↑ Promyshlennai︠a︡ ėnergetika (in Russian). Gosėnergoizdat. 1947. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
↑ Аллилуев, Владимир (21 March 2014). Сталин – Аллилуевы. Хроника одной семьи (in Russian). Алгоритм. ISBN 978-5-457-56180-9. Retrieved 17 March 2026.