The Moscow City Council ( Russian : Московский городской совет ) in short Mossoviet (Russian: Моссовет), an abbreviation of Moscow Soviet (Московский Совет, Moskovskij Sovet ), was established following the February Revolution 8–16 March 1917 [ O.S. 23 Feb. – 3 Mar. ]. Initially it was a parallel, shadow city administration of Moscow , Russia run by left-wing parties. Following the October Revolution it became the city administration of Moscow throughout the Soviet period (1918–1991).
4-488: The first meeting of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ Deputies occurred on 1 March 1917. The meeting was initially attended by 52 delegates from various factories, cooperative societies and trade unions. However, when the meeting was reconvened in the evening after a short adjournment, the meeting had swollen to over six hundred delegates. An executive committee of 44 members was created under the leadership of Lev Khinchuk
8-587: A member of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party . Between 1918 and 1941, these two administrations were perceived as two distinct, although related, bodies. The Mossovet ( Imeni Mossoveta ) title was appended to the names of different institutions as an honorary title ("in the name of Mossovet") referring to 1917 events, i.e. or as a sign of administrative control ("established by Mossovet") by
12-419: The current administration, i.e. Designed in 1780s by Matvey Kazakov , it was shorn off its wings in 1939 and moved fourteen meters backward on rollers. By 1945 it was jacked up a storey, joined to a smaller house built in 1930s, sandwiched between new ground and attic floors, and fitted with a high-arched portico. Lev Khinchuk Lev Mikhailovich Khinchuk (16 November 1868, Poltava – 14 March 1944)
16-552: Was a Soviet politician , statesman and diplomat . Originally he was a member of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) until 1919, when he applied for membership of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) . He was elected a member of the executive committee of the Saint Petersburg Soviet during the 1905 Russian Revolution . Following its defeat he
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