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Nikolai Alexandrovich Yemelyanov
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Yemelyanov was a Russian revolutionary. He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1904 and was involved in transporting weapons and revolutionary literature from Finland. From 1905 Yemelyanov was acquainted with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Yemelyanov played a significant role in organizing Lenin's underground activities in the village of Razliv near Sestroretsk in July 1917, providing shelter for Lenin and Grigory Zinoviev. He also took part in the storming of the Winter Palace. After the revolution Yemelyanov served as chairman of the Sestroretsk city council and participated in suppressing the Kronstadt uprising. In the same year he worked abroad within the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade.
In subsequent years Yemelyanov held leadership positions in the Sestroretsk district party committee and worked in Moscow. In 1932 he was granted a personal pension; however, in the same year he was repressed and sentenced to ten years in labor camps, after which he was exiled to Kazakhstan. After Stalin's death Yemelyanov was released and his pension reinstated. Nikolai Alexandrovich Yemelyanov died on August 13, 1958 in Sestroretsk and was buried in the local cemetery.
Date of birth
01 January 1872
Date of death
13 August 1958
Occupation
Statesman