Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov (; – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was from 1946 to 1949 the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, literally meaning Premier or Prime Minister. He was purged during 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 at and a hammer and sickle in the middle. Together with Nikolai Voznesensky, he was sentenced to death in 1950 based on false accusations of embezzlement of 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. References 1907 births 1950 deaths Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Russian communists Heads of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People executed for treason against the Soviet Union Members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union executed by the Soviet Union Russian people executed by the Soviet Union Executed people from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast NKVD Political repression in the Soviet Union People executed for corruption First Secretaries of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU