Isidor Evstigneevich Lyubimov (13 May 1882, the village of Starishchevo, Kologriv Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate — 1939) was a professional revolutionary, a member of the RSDLP) from 1902, and a Soviet statesman. Nizhny Novgorod became one of the places of his exile: here he took part in the activities of the Nizhny Novgorod Committee of the RSDLP in 1909–1911.[2]

Path to revolution

Coming from a peasant family, after finishing the zemstvo elementary school Lyubimov worked seasonal trades away from home, then entered a trade school and completed the course of the Kostroma Theological Seminary as an external student. From 1899 he worked as a teacher. Acquaintance with RSDLP member V. Mindovsky and later with S. P. Shesternin drew him into revolutionary activity: his party membership is counted from 1902.[2] In 1903, while teaching at a zemstvo school near Rodniki, he organized social-democratic circles and taught classes at an evening school for workers at the Krasilshchikova factory, regarding his teaching post merely as legal cover.[2] At the end of 1905 the zemstvo board removed him from teaching, and he went underground. In November 1906 Lyubimov organized a mass rally of several thousand Rodniki textile workers at the People's House.[2]

The London Congress and the Moscow period

In 1907 Lyubimov was elected a delegate to the The Ivanovo Congress, took part in it under the pseudonym Grigory, and voted for the Bolshevik resolutions on relations with the bourgeois parties, on tactics in the State Duma, and on relations between the party and the trade unions. At the congress he personally met V. I. Lenin.[1] On returning to Russia, he moved to Moscow, where he worked as party organizer for the Sokolniki district and was at the same time a member of the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP. On 28 June 1908 he was arrested; after a four-month imprisonment he worked in the printers' trade union and, together with Antonov-Ovseenko, edited the journal "Russky Pechatnik" ("The Russian Printer").[2]

Exile in Nizhny Novgorod and Vologda

In November 1909 a new arrest followed, and Lyubimov was exiled to Nizhny Novgorod under police surveillance. Taking a job at the office of the "Samolyot" ("Aeroplane") steamship company, he took an active part in the work of the Nizhny Novgorod Committee of the RSDLP: he spoke to workers at rallies, took part in collecting money to set up an underground printing press, and helped political prisoners. His ties with members of the Nizhny Novgorod party organization did not escape the gendarmes, and another arrest followed — this time with exile for three years under police surveillance to Vologda.[2]

In Vologda Lyubimov took a position as a clerk for the timber merchant Raskin, established contacts with local Bolsheviks and exiles, including M. I. Ulyanova, who arrived in exile in November 1912. He became one of the organizers of the cultural-educational society "Prosveshchenie" ("Enlightenment"), which brought together more than two hundred Vologda workers. The Vologda organization built solid ties with "Pravda" and with the party organizations of Moscow and St. Petersburg; every month between 100 and 200 rubles were collected and sent to Lenin's disposal.[1] In April 1912, after the shooting of workers on the Lena goldfields, Lyubimov, together with I. A. Sammer, F. G. Chuchin, I. E. Yermolaev and others, signed an appeal to the Social-Democratic faction of the State Duma, which gathered 140 signatures and was published in the press.[1]

Later life

Lyubimov lived the life of a professional revolutionary who went through repeated arrests, exiles, and underground work in various cities of Russia. At the time of his arrest he held the post of People's Commissar for Light Industry of the USSR and lived in Moscow on Granovsky Street. On 24 September 1937 Lyubimov was arrested on charges of treason and participation in an anti-Soviet right-wing organization. On 27 November 1937 the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death; the sentence was carried out the same day, and his burial place was the Donskoye Cemetery in Moscow.[3][3][3] Year of death — 1939.[2]

Sources

  1. ivsovr.ru — Ivanovo Regional "Union of Workers" — Lyubimov I.E. (archive)
  2. booksite.ru — Panov L. Comrade Grigory: on the 100th anniversary of the birth of I. E. Lyubimov (archive)
  3. ru.openlist.wiki — Lyubimov Isidor Evstigneevich (1882) — At the time of his arrest Lyubimov held the post of People's Commissar for Light Industry of the USSR and lived in Moscow on Granovsky Street. (archive)