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Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Kalinin was a Bolshevik revolutionary of peasant origin who served as formal head of state of Soviet Russia from 1919 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1946. As chairman of the Central Executive Committee and later of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet he held a largely ceremonial post, while real power lay with Stalin. Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in his honour.
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