Vladimir Neyman

Biography

Early life and Russian Civil War On February 10, 1889, Neumann was born to a Jewish family in Chitkan, Barguzin district, Transbaikal Oblast.

China In June 1921, Neumann using the nom de guerre "Nikolsky" arrived in Shanghai, being sent by the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist International in Irkutsk with the task of leading and attending a congress to form a national-level communist party. and delivered a speech at the meeting about the goals of the Profintern. Following a ten-minute show trial, he was executed by firing squad in Khabarovsk on September 21, 1938.

Legacy Because Nikolsky's life and career were largely unknown for a long time, he was called the "forgotten" participant of the 1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party or the "fifteenth person" of the 1st National Congress. In the 1986, Chinese diplomats asked Mikhail Gorbachev for assistance in locating biographical materials and photographs of Nikolsky. Mongolian and Russian archival scholars later located a photograph of Nikolsky. In September 2007, a photograph of Nikolsky was first displayed at the Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.