Robert Eikhe (1890-1940), a participant in the 1905 revolution, presidium member of the Riga Soviet from 1917, chairman of the Siberian territorial executive committee from 1925, secretary of the West Siberian territorial committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks from 1929, People's Commissar of Agriculture of the U.S.S.R. from 1937, member of the Party's Central Committee from 1930 and alternative members of the Central Committee's Politburo from 1933.
