Timofey Samsonov

Timofey Petrovich Samsonov (Russian: Тимофей Петрович Самсонов; 9 May 1888 – 28 October 1955) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and veteran of the Russian Civil War.

He became a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906 but left the Party to join an Anarcho-Syndicalist group.

He later rejoined the Russian Communist Party (b) in 1918 and served in the Civil War.

He was a member of the Central Committee elected by the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Central Committee elected by the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Central Committee elected by the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

He was Chief Administrator (1927–1935) and head of the Accounting Department (1932–1934) of the Central Committee.