Isidar Lubimaŭ

Isidor Yevstigneyevich Lyubimov (; 13 May 1882 – 27 November 1937) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. Lyubimov was Mikhail Frunze's closest associate during the Russian Revolution and Civil War.

Biography

Early revolutionary career Lyubimov was born into a peasant family. After graduating from school he worked as a tailor and later as a teacher. Lyubimov joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902. At the end of 1905 he was removed from teaching by the Zemstvo administration for unreliability. He went underground and devoted himself entirely to party work. From 1906 to 1907 he worked as a professional revolutionary in Ivanovo-Voznesensk and was the responsible leader of the elections to the 2nd and 3rd State Dumas in the Vladimir Province. In 1908 he moved to Moscow and worked as a carpenter.

From October 1908 to November 1909 he was a carpenter in the carpentry workshop of the Museum of Visual Aids in Moscow; worked in the trade union of printers, in the winter of 1908 was elected secretary of the Union of Printers of Moscow, at the same time participated in the party group of trade union workers. At the same time he worked as a member of the board in the public educational club of public entertainment organized by the printers of Moscow.

In December 1909 he was arrested, after five months in Butyrka prison and was sent to Nizhny Novgorod.

From 1910 to 1911 he organized the distribution of social-democratic and professional magazines in the factories of Nizhny Novgorod and Sormov, and worked in the unions of printers and tailors. He participated in local party work and in the organization of the party magazine "Volga Byl". In 1911 he was arrested and imprisoned in the Nizhny Novgorod prison. From 1911 to 1914 he was exiled to the Vologda province. In the city of Vologda organized a workers' cultural and educational club "Enlightenment".

From July to August 1917 Lyubimov was Chairman of the Minsk Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

In August 1917, at the request of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk District Committee of the RSDLP (B), the Central Committee of the RSDLP (B) sent Frunze and Lyubimov to responsible party work in the cities of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Shuya. Lyubimov organized and edited the Ivanovo-Voznesensk city newspaper Nasha Zvezda.

From October 1917 he Mayor of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and rom November 22, 1917, Lyubimov was chairman airman of the Ivanovo-Voznesenskaya Council. On November 25, 1917, he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly of the RSDLP (B) in the Vladimir constituency.

In November 1917, on Lyubimov's initiative, the newspaper Rabochy Horod (Worker's Land) was founded, a body of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Public Self-Government and the Ivanovo-Voznesensk City Council of Workers' Deputies. Lyubimov took an active part in editing the newspaper.

Lyubimov was sent to Central Asia and from October 1919 to November 1920 he was a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Turkestan Front, authorized to supply the Turkestan Front.

At the same time, from 1919 to 1920, he was a member of the presidium of the CEC of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and deputy chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1920 he became Chairman of the Samarkand Regional Military Revolutionary Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the CP (b) Turkestan. From May to September 1920 he was chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan SFR.

Isidor Lyubimov was posthumously rehabilitated on March 14, 1956, and reinstated in the party on March 22, 1956.