Shvernik
Americannoun
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Kalinin's successor is gruff, bustling, 57-year-old Vice President Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, who will now function both as President of the Union and as an alternate member of the policymaking Politburo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along with the letter, Shvernik sent a resolution passed by the Supreme Soviet, in response to last month's resolution by the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964, only two higher-echelon Soviet leaders have retired because of age: Anastas Mikoyan and Nikolai Shvernik.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, Secretary since 1930 of the Ail-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, is a big man in his home country, a great man for telling Soviet workmen a thing or two.
From Time Magazine Archive
By this time Paul was familiar with the security measures taken by Leonid Shvernik and the others.
From Revolution by Reynolds, Mack
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