Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov (; 20 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian politician and Soviet statesman who was executed during the Great Purge.
He was born in Vichuga, now in Ivanovo Oblast, to a family of weavers of Russian ethnicity. In 1909 he became a Menshevik and graduated from the gymnasium in Kostroma in 1911. Between 1913 and 1917 he attended Moscow University, where he studied mathematics and physics. During this period he became friendly with Dmitri Furmanov. In 1914 his daughter was born in Ivanovo.
Work in Ivanovo
1909 - a member of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. 1916 - delivered workplaces courses with Furmanov 3 Jun, 1918 - organized by «the Committee on the Establishment of Ivanovo-Voznesensky Polytechnic Institute» (based evacuated Riga Polytechnic Institute). Mikhail Frunze appointed Chernov as secretary (managing director) of the committee. 1919 - Member RSDRP (internationalists). 1920 - Member of Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik). 1920 - Head of Ivanovo-Voznesensky provincial office of state. 1920–1921 - Head of Ivanovo-Voznesensky provincial department of public education. 8–16 March 1921 - Delegate Xth Congress Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) (from Ivanovo-Voznesensky province, with the casting vote). 1921–1922 - Secretary of Ivanovo-Voznesensky province Committee Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik). 1922–1923 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of Ivanovo-Voznesensky Province Council (Ispolkom).
Work in Ukraine
1923–1925 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Donetsk Oblast. 1925–1928 - People's Commissioner of Internal Trade, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1928–1930 - member board of the People's Commissariat of Trade of the USSR 1929–1930 - Head of the department of fodder and garden inspections of the People's Commissariat of Trade of the USSR. 1930 - Chairman of the association «Soyuzhleb». 1930–1932 - People's deputy commissioner supplies USSR. 1932 – April 1933 - Vice chairman of the Committee on Purchases in the Sovnarkom of the Soviet Union. April 1933 – April 1934 - Chairman of the Committee on agricultural products in the Sovnarkom, the USSR (KomzagotSTO). 26 January – 10 February 1934 - Delegate of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (b) (from KomzagotSTO, with a deliberative voice). 10 February 1934 – December 8, 1937 - Member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (removed from the members of the Central Committee plenum of the Central Committee Decision MAC (b) survey on 4–8 December 1937). 10 April 1934 – 29 October 1937 - People's Commissar of Agriculture USSR.
"For years, his leadership Narkomzemom Union accounted for the main second five-year period, the task in the agricultural sector has been the strengthening of logistical base kolkhoz system. The results of M.I. Chernoff were visible on the basis of the second five-year plan. Gross charges of grain in 1937 amounted to 94.7 against 68.4 million tonnes in 1933 yield of 9.3 and 6.7, respectively, tonne / hectare. Agriculture has had some success in the production of leading industrial crops. Gross output of industrial crops collective farms in constant prices 1926-1927 city was 926.3, in 1935, 1213, 9, 1936 - 1440.1, and in 1937 - 1622.4 million rubles."(From Book VI Chernoivanova One and a half-century agrarian problems faced by the Agricultural authorities of Russia, 1837-2005, M. 2006).
All-Union Agricultural Exhibition
17 Feb, 1935 - Report M. Chernoff «The work of the Commission on some charter Agriculture artel» II at the All-Union Congress of collective farmers, Udarnikov, in which he voiced a proposal to organize a commission in 1937 Vsesoyuznuyu agricultural exhibition. On the same day the ANC and TsK VKP (b) (signed by Molotov and Stalin) made a decision to organize the exhibition. 17 Aug., 1935 - Soviet Union for the ruling ANC, construction management and organization VSHV (future ENEA) established Exhibition Committee, chaired by approved by M. Black. 21 Apr, 1936 - decided SNK USSR «All-Union Agricultural Exhibition 1937» with the date of the exhibition opening on July 6, 1937 No organizational and political circumstances created so that the opening of the exhibition, first moved to 1938 and then to 1939