Mikhail Rodionov

Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov (Михаи́л Ива́нович Родио́нов; 25 October 1907 – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who, from 1946 to 1949, was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR. He was purged during the Leningrad affair.

He created a proposal for a new state flag of the RSFSR, but it was rejected. It consisted of a traditional Russian tricolour flag with a hammer and sickle in the middle. Together with Nikolai Voznesensky, he was sentenced to death in 1950 based on false accusations of embezzlement from the Soviet State budget for "unapproved business in Leningrad", which was labeled anti-Soviet treason, at the Leningrad Affair case. He was a close companion of Alexei Kosygin.