Vladimir I. Lenin
Russian politician, communist theorist and the founder of the Soviet Union
- Born: 1870-04-22 (Ulyanovsk) (country: Russian Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Simbirsk Governorate; object named as: Simbirsk)
- Died: 1924-01-21 (Bolshiye Gorki) (country: Soviet Union; located in the administrative territorial entity: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
- Country of citizenship: Russian Empire (period: 1870-01-01 through 1918-01-01); Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (period: 1918-01-01 through 1922-01-01); Soviet Union (period: 1922-01-01 through 1924-01-01)
- Occupation: economist; journalist; lawyer; philosopher; political theorist; politician; revolutionary; writer
- Member of political party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union (period: 1918-01-01 through 1924-01-01); Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (until: 1917-01-01); Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik) (period: 1917-01-01 through 1918-01-01)
- Participant in: 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; 4th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party; Russian Revolution
- Position held: Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (period: 1923-07-06 through 1924-01-21; replaced by: Alexei Rykov); Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR (period: 1917-11-09 through 1924-01-21; replaced by: Alexei Rykov); Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (period: 1917-10-23 through 1917-11-05, 1917-12-12 through 1919-03-25, 1919-03-25 through 1924-01-21); deputy (of: Mossovet; role: posthumous; since: 1924-02-07); president of the Council of Labour and Defence of the USSR (period: 1923-07-17 through 1924-01-21; replaced by: Lev Kamenev)
- Employer: Saint Petersburg State University
- Educated at: Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University (academic degree: law degree; academic major: jurisprudence; since: 1890-01-01); Kazan Imperial University (academic major: jurisprudence; until: 1888-01-01); Simbirsk classical gymnasium
- Spouse: Nadezhda Krupskaya (period: 1898-01-01 through 1924-01-21)
- Residence: London (period: 1902-04-01 through 1903-05-01); Moscow; Podolsk (period: 1900-01-01 through 1900-01-01); Saint Petersburg; Schwabing (period: 1900-01-01 through 1902-04-01); Shushenskoye (period: 1897-05-08 through 1900-01-29)
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/7393146
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000120988915
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80067085
- Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80067085