{{Infobox person | name = Pyotr Voevodin | image = Piotr Wojewodin in 1923.jpg | caption = Pyotr Voevodin in 1923 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|7|12}} | birth_place = Sumy, Russian Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|11|24|1884|7|12}} | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | alma_mater = | occupation = Editor, film producer, politician | years_active = | political_party = RSDLP (1899–1903) <br/>RSDLP (Bolsheviks) {{nowrap|(1903–1918)}}<br/> CPSU (1918–1964) | spouse = | website = | awards = Hero of Socialist Labor <br/> {{Order of Lenin}} }} '''Pyotr Ivanovich Voevodin''' ({{langx|ru|Пётр Иванович Воеводин}}; 12 July 1884 – 24 November 1964) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and organizer of film production.
== Biography == Voevodin was born into a working-class family in Sumy. He graduated from two classes of the Zemstvo school, after which he took a job as a factory worker. In 1899 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He was actively involved in revolutionary activities in many cities, and was repeatedly detained by the police. Voevodin was a participant in the 1905 Russian Revolution. From 1912 to 1913 he was in exile in the United States. In 1913 he returned to Russia illegally and worked in Baku but was arrested and exiled to the {{ill|Narym region|ru|Нарымский край}}.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Воеводин Пётр Иванович |url=https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=19285 |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=warheroes.ru}}</ref>
In 1917, the West Siberian Congress of Soviets elected Voevodin chairman of the regional food and economic council of Western Siberia and the Urals. In 1918 he was the head of the West Siberian Sovnarkhoz. From 1919 to 1920 he worked on military and political affairs. In 1919 he was the commissioner of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (B) and the political commissar of the agit-train ''October Revolution'' on the Western and Southern fronts. In 1920 he was chief commissioner of the {{ill|Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk railway|ru|Московско-Виндаво-Рыбинская железная дорога}}.<ref name=":0" />
From 1921 to 1922 Voevodin was the head of the All-Russian Photo-Cinematographic Department of the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ИнфоРост |first=Н. П. |title=Кино: организация управления и власть. 1917-1938 гг. Сборник документов |url=http://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/17-kino-organizatsiya-upravleniya-i-vlast-1917-1938-gg-sbornik-dokumentov#mode/inspect/page/1/zoom/4 |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=docs.historyrussia.org}}</ref>
From 1922 to 1939 Voevodin was the editor-in-chief of the popular science journal ''Electrification'' and the scientific journal {{ill|Electricity (journal)|ru|Электричество (журнал)|lt=''Electricity''}}. In 1931 he became the head of the Amtorg publishing house and editor of the ''American Technology and Industry'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Воеводин Петр Иванович {{!}} Библиотека сибирского краеведения |url=http://bsk.nios.ru/enciklodediya/voevodin-petr-ivanovich |access-date=30 June 2022|website=bsk.nios.ru}}</ref>
Voevodin was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's of the 5th and 6th convocations. In 1940 he retired.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet of 2 January 1964, Pyotr Voevodin was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin, and the {{ill|"Hammer and Sickle" Medal|ru|Медаль «Серп и Молот»}}.<ref name=":0" />
Voevodin died on 25 November 1964, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
A street in the Kirovsky City District of Samara is named after Pyotr Voevodin.
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