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Shvernik

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[shvair-nik, shvyer-nyik] / ˈʃvɛər nɪk, ˈʃvjɛr njɪk /

noun

  1. Nikolai 1888–1970, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1946–53.


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Her softly modulated voice was saved for private Kremlin chats with Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Shvernik and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Leonid Shvernik leaned back in his chair, shocked.

From Revolution by Reynolds, Mack

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