1076372 Mikhail Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, an early Soviet parliament, with the staff of the October Revolution propaganda train, 1917 (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (Russian: ?邽?訄邽?郅 ?赲訄?郇郋赲邽? ?訄郅邽?郇邽郇; 19 November [O.S. 7 November] 1875 ??June 3, 1946), known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the nominal head of state of Russia and later of the Soviet Union, from 1919 to 1946. From 1926 he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where he was one of the inner circle of party leaders around Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. ); Sputnik; Russian, out of copyright.