Grigory Sokolnikov
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Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (August 15, 1888 - 1939) (born Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant) was a Bolshevik.
He was born to a Jewish railway doctor in present-day Poltava Oblast but eventually moved to Moscow. He served as the Commissar of Finance, as well as Soviet ambassador to England. He was a creator of the first stable Soviet currency, a member of the delegation that signed the Brest-Litovsk treaty in 1918, and was killed during the great purge under Stalin.
