Kuprian Kirkizh

Kuprian Kirkizh
Куприян Киркиж
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan
In office
1927  April 1929
Preceded byVladimir Ivanov
Succeeded byNikolai Gikalo
Executive secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee
In office
1922  November 1925
Preceded byNikolay Popov
Succeeded byPavel Postyshev
Personal details
Born(1886-10-29)29 October 1886
Smolyany, Lepelsky Uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died24 May 1932(1932-05-24) (aged 45)
Vladimir, Vladimir Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks)
(1910–1918)
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1932)
Awards

Kuprian Osipovich Kirkizh (Russian: Куприян Осипович Киркиж; 29 September 1886 24 May 1932) was a Belarusian revolutionary and Soviet statesman who served as the second General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR from 1927 until April 1929.