During this period, Kalinin joined the Petrograd Bolshevik committee and assisted in the organization of the party daily Pravda, newly legalized by the post-Tsarist regime.

He seems to have enjoyed a majority in the Politburo initially ( he said that Kalinin and Voroshilov betrayed the Right at the last minute ) and unlike the Left Opposition, broad mass support among the peasantry, which made up 80 % of the Russian population.

Kalinin was born to a peasant family of ethnic Russian origin in the village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa ( Верхняя Троица ), Tverskaya Gubernia, Russia.

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, Kalinin worked for the Bolshevik party and on the staff of the Central Union of Metal Workers.

In 1919 Kalinin was elected a member of the governing Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party as well as a candidate member of the Politburo.

Kalinin ( middle row, at Lenin's left ) among other participants to the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ( b ), 1919.

In 1920, Kalinin attended the Second World Congress of the Communist International in Moscow as part of the Russian delegation.

Kalinin ( Russian: Калинин ), or Kalinina ( feminine ; Калинина ), is a Russian surname, derived from the word kalina ( калина, meaning " guelder rose "), and may refer to:

* Dmitri Kalinin ( born 1980 ), Russian hockey player

* Dmitry Gennadyevich Kalinin ( born 1978 ), Russian football player

* Fedor Kalinin, ( 1882-1920 ) Russian Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician

* Mikhail Kalinin ( 1875 – 1946 ), Russian Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician

* Sergei Kalinin ( born 1991 ), a Russian ice hockey player

* Kalinin, original name under which the Kirov class Russian battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov was commissioned

* Kalinin Front, Russian Army Group formation

* Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant near Udomlya, Tver Oblast, Russian

Pugo was born in Kalinin, Russian SFSR ( now Tver, Russia ) into a family of Latvian communists who had left Latvia after Latvia was proclaimed as an independent country in 1918.

On December 29, 1922, a conference of delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty of Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, these two documents were confirmed by the 1st Congress of Soviets of the USSR and signed by heads of delegations-Mikhail Kalinin, Mikhail Tskhakaya, Mikhail Frunze and Grigory Petrovsky, Aleksandr Chervyakov respectively on December 30, 1922.

The Velikiye Luki offensive operation () was executed by the forces of the Red Army's Kalinin Front against the Wehrmacht's 3rd Panzer Army during the Winter Campaign of 1942-1943 with the objective of liberating the Russian city of Velikiye Luki as part of the northern pincer of the Rzhev-Sychevka Strategic Offensive Operation ( Operation Mars ).

Kalinin was an early and devoted adherent of the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP, headed by Vladimir Lenin.

In April 1917 Kalinin, like many other Bolsheviks, advocated conditional support for the Provisional Government in cooperation with the Menshevik faction of the RSDLP — a position at odds with that of Lenin.

In July of that year, the historic city of Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad to honour Mikhail Kalinin and the area named the Kaliningrad Oblast.

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin retired in 1946 and died on 3 June of that same year in Moscow.

The Rybinsk Reservoir, filled between 1941 and 1947, is one of the largest in Europe ; its filling flooded the town of Mologa and several hundreds of villages, necessitating the relocation of some 150, 000 in Yaroslavl, Vologda, and Kalinin ( now Tver ) Oblasts.

* 11 August – One of the largest bombers ever made, the huge Kalinin K-7 makes its first flight

* November 21 – The only built Kalinin K-7, which made its first flight only 3 months before on 11 August, crashes after one of the tail booms fails due to a structural failure, two more K-7s are planned but neither are built before the project is cancelled in 1935.

) was set up with Stalin at its head and including Y. Sverdlov, Spandaryan, S. Ordjonikidze, M. Kalinin and Goloshchekin.

This October 1917 conference elected a Central Committee of Proletarian Cultural-Educational Organizations of Petrograd which included among its members Lunacharsky, Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, talented young journalist Larisa Reisner, and a long-time Vpered associate of Bogdanov and Lunacharsky named Fedor Kalinin, among others.

During its history the station was renamed several times, originally opened as Ulitsa Kominterna it was renamed in 1946 to Kalininskaya after Mikhail Kalinin.

What makes the line unique is its name, as it was originally named after partially passing the Kalinin district, which disappeared in the 1990s.

Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945 – 1953.

After World War II, East Prussia was divided between the USSR and Poland, and Königsberg was renamed after the Soviet Head of State Mikhail Kalinin.

* 1875 – Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( d. 1946 )

* 1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician ( d. 1946 )

Image: Bukharin Kalinin. jpg | Mikhail Kalinin or " What you see is what you get ", 1929

* March 5 – Katyn massacre: Members of the Soviet Politburo ( Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov and Lavrenty Beria ) sign an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution of 25, 700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14, 700 Polish POWs.

The rozhok (‘ little horn ’) of the Vladimir and Tver ( Kalinin ) districts, however, may be a rural offshoot of the straight cornett ; it has a separate mouthpiece ( which some players place to the side of the lips ) and is made in two or more sizes for playing music in parts.

These two documents were confirmed by the 1st Congress of Soviets of the USSR and signed by heads of delegations-Mikhail Kalinin, Mikha Tskhakaya, Mikhail Frunze and Grigory Petrovsky, Aleksandr Chervyakov respectively on December 30, 1922.

Stalin now used Trotsky's previous criticisms of Zinoviev and Kamenev to defeat and demote them and bring in allies like Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov and Mikhail Kalinin.

File: Masoleum-gorky kaganovich molotov voroshilov stalin kalinin. jpg | Gorky, Kaganovich, Molotov, Voroshilov, Stalin and Kalinin at the podium of Lenin's mausoleum.

By 1934, raccoon dogs were introduced into Altai, the northern Caucasus, Armenia, Kirgizia, Tatarstan, Kalinin, Penza and Orenburg regions.

However, successful introductions occurred in European Russia ( particularly in the Pribaltika, Kalinin, Novgorod, Pskov and Smolensk regions ), in central Russia ( Moscow, Yaroslavl, Vologda, Gorkiy, Vladimir, Ryazan Oblasts, etc.

On March 1, a general meeting of the garrison was held, attended also by Mikhail Kalinin and Commissar of the Soviet Baltic Fleet Nikolai Kuzmin, who made speeches for the Government.

The rebels, moreover, allowed Kalinin ( a leading Communist ) to return to Petrograd, though he would have made a valuable hostage.

Authors of Rostov-on-Don include Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Zakrutkin, Fadeyev, Safronov, Kalinin, Alexander Pushkin, Maxim Gorky, Sergey Yesenin, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Zhdanov and Mikael Nalbandian.

He then graduated with honours from the Leningrad Kalinin Higher Artillery in 1981.

The city was known as Kalinin () from 1931 to 1990.

In 1931, the city was renamed Kalinin, after a notable Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin who had been born nearby.

The Wehrmacht occupied Kalinin for two months in 1941, leaving the city in ashes.