Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov

Semyon Ivanovich Kanatchikov (13 April [ O.S. 1 April] 1879 – 1937) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, journalist, literary critic, and writer.

Biography Early years Kanatchikov was born in 1879 into a peasant family and became a worker from a young age, eventually becoming employed at the Gustav List Metal Works in Moscow. He was a member of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) after its founding. From 1903, he was a member of its Bolshevik faction.

In 1905 he was a member of the Moscow, then Petrograd party committees. Then he worked in Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil.

As a Bolshevik delegate with a decisive vote from the Ural organization of the 4th (Unification) Congress of the RSDLP (1906), he represented the Nizhny Tagil organization. Listed as Egorov in the minutes of the congress, and supported Vladimir Lenin and his platform. From 1910 to 1916 he was in prison and exile in the Irkutsk Province.

Revolutionary career In 1917 he was a member of the Novonikolaevsky and Tomsk committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and a member of the Novonikolaev Council. In 1918, he served as Chairman of the Tomsk Military Revolutionary Headquarters, Deputy Chairman of the Provincial Executive Committee, then a member of the Perm Provincial Executive Committee and head of the Provincial Department of Public Education.

From 1919 he worked in Moscow. He was member of the Board of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), a member of the Small Council of People's Commissars, and one of the organizers of the Sverdlov Communist University.

He served Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Tatar ASSR in 1920–1921.

From 1928 he engaged in literary work. Kanatchikov served as an editor of the Krasnaya Nov magazine, and editor of the Proletarian Revolution journal, in 1929–1930, the responsible (chief) editor of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, and then editor-in-chief of GIHL. According to other sources, he was shot in 1937.