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Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov was a Bolshevik organiser and close associate of Lenin. From November 1917 he chaired the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, making him the formal head of state of Soviet Russia, while also running the party's secretariat. He was involved in the decision to kill the former tsar and his family in 1918 and died of illness in March 1919. Yekaterinburg was called Sverdlovsk after him from 1924 to 1991.
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