Soviet media archives: President Sverdlov

[Octahedron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqO2Pr6br...re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNf71CyRD0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNkgOaMTn...re=related

 
the city Swerdlowsk is named to him.

[DreamTime]

Sorry my friend, I see no resemblence at all.

[HeadSpace]

I see it:) It's not obvious though. Beautiful man.

[Sariel]

He was never president of SSSR, he was chairman of VTsIK and the facto president of RSFSR [size="2"]Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic[/size]Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets

• Note: The first Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets elected in June 1917 was not a governing body and its chairman was not the head of Russian state. This changed at the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets during the October Revolution.

• Lev Kamenev (9 November 1917 - 21 November 1917)
• Yakov Sverdlov (21 November 1917 - 16 March 1919) (died in office)
• Mikhail Vladimirsky (16 March 1919 - 30 March 1919) (acting)
• Mikhail Kalinin (30 March 1919 - 19 July 1938)

• Note: [size="3"]On 30 December 1922 the Soviet Union was formed.[/size] It comprised Soviet Russia (RSFSR) and other Communist-controlled Soviet republics. Mikhail Kalinin retained his position as Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets and became Chairman of the newly formed Central Executive Committee of the USSR as well. Both positions were mostly ceremonial, increasingly so in later years.

[Sily]

Interesting, Octahedron.  :)