Isidore Gukovsky

Isidor Emmanuilovich Gukovsky (Russian: Исидор Эммануилович Гуковский 1871–1921) was the People's Commissar of Finance following the Russian Revolution.

Isidor was the son of a merchant, who became a chemist's assistant. In 1898, he started participating in the Group of Workers Revolutionaries. He later became a Menshevik.He was imprisoned for inciting the Izhorskiye workers to strike. In 1904 he went to Baku, and used the name Theodor Izmaylovich for his political work. By 1906 he was secretary of the newspaper New Life. He then went to Odessa before travelling abroad. In 1907, he returned to Russia, was arrested, again brought to trial but acquitted (1908). He settled in Moscow. After the October Revolution he became a Bolshevik and was appointed finance minister, then plenipotentiary representative of Russia in Estonia. In autumn 1921, he died of pneumonia.

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Ministers of Finance of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
People's Commissars for Finance (1917–1946)	Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov Vyacheslav Menzhinsky Isidore Gukovsky Nikolay Krestinsky Grigori Sokolnikov Myrov Vladimirov Nikolai Milutin Varvara Yakovleva Vasili Popov M.N. Umonov Arseny Sofronov Alexei Homespun Arseny Sofronov
Ministers of Finance (1946–1991)	Arseny Sofronov Ivan Fadeev Andrei Bobrovnikov Boris Fyodorov Igor Lazarev
Soviet Union Russian Federation