Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ленин
Lenin in 1918
1st Premier of the Soviet Union
In office 30 December 1922 – 21 January 1924
President	Mikhail Kalinin
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Alexei Rykov
Premier of Russian SFSR
In office 8 November 1917 – 21 January 1924
Preceded by	Office established Alexander Kerensky (as Chairman of Russian Provisional Government)
Succeeded by	Alexei Rykov
Personal details
Born	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-04-10)10 April 1870 Simbirsk, Russian Empire
Died	21 January 1924(1924-01-21) (aged 53) Gorki, Moscow Governorate, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Lenin's Mausoleum, Moscow, Russian Federation
Political party	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (1898–1912) Russian Communist Party (1912–1924)
Other political affiliations	League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (1895–1898)
Spouse(s)	Nadezhda Krupskaya (m. 1898–1924)
Relations	Aleksandr Ulyanov (brother) Anna Ulyanova (sister) Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (brother) Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova (sister) and three other siblings
Parents	Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov Maria Alexandrovna Blank
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg Imperial University
Signature
Central institution membership 1917–1924: Full member, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Politburo 1917–1924: Full member, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Central Committee 1905–1907: Full member, 3rd Central Committee Military offices held 1918–1920: Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence Leader of the Soviet Union First holder Stalin →

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as  Lenin (info • help) (10 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian lawyer, revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party and of the October Revolution. He was the first leader of the USSR and the government that took over Russia in 1917. Lenin's ideas became known as Leninism.