Nikolai Strelkov

Nikolai Arsenevich Strelkov was a Russian Social Democratic (Menshevik) politician. He was born in 1879. Strelkov hailed from a noble family, his father being a State Councillor.

Strelkov graduated from the Morshansk Real School in 1898. He was also a leader of the Railwaymens' Union at the Chinese Eastern Railway. Strelkov emerged victorious, winning the plurality of votes cast in Harbin and finishing in second place in the precincts of the western line and the eastern line (where the Bolshevik Ryutin was the most voted candidate). Per the account of Oliver Henry Radkey, Strelkov obtained 13,139 votes (37.37%). He attended the sole session of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly held on January 5, 1918. He worked as a literature teacher at the Harbin Commercial College and the Harbin Gymnasium (of the YMCA) in the 1920s.