Vladimir Vilensky-Sibiryakov

Vladimir Dmitrievich Vilensky-Sibiryakov (; 8 July 1888 – 2 July 1942) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and political activist involved in the Russian Revolution in Siberia and later a Soviet Comintern representative and historian.

Vladimir was born in Tomsk, Siberia. He was orphaned as a child and became a foundry worker, joining the Tomsk Social-Democrats before the 1905 revolution. He was arrested in 1908 for distributing revolutionary literature amongst the railway workers on Ilanskaya railway station. Soon after its establishment, Vilensky-Sibiryakov sent Grigori Voitinsky to Shanghai as its representative. Vilensky-Sibiryakov visited Beijing in July 1920.

He was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1927, accused of anti-party fractional work. But he was reinstated in 1931, only to be expelled again in 1936.

Vilensky-Sibiryakov was sentenced to 8 years of forced labour in 1936. He died out of exhaustion in a gulag in Ilansky. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.