HC Deb 01 April 1925 vol 182 cc1276-7
18. Sir HARRY BRITTAIN

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the names of the persons who are at the head of the present Government of Russia?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

The supreme executive organ of the Soviet Union is the Central Committee, of which there are four presidents, namely:

M. Kalinin, President of the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic.

G Petrovski, President of the Central Executive Committee of the Ukraine Socialist Soviet Republic.

A. Chervyakov, President of the Central Executive Committee of the White Russian Socialist Soviet Republic.

The fourth President, who is also President of the Central Executive Committee of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, has yet to be elected to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of M. Narimanov