Innokenty Pavlovich Fedenev (Russian: Иннокентий Павлович Феденев) was an Old Bolshevik. Hailing from Irkutsk, Fedenev was born in 1878. [1] [2] [3] He began working in the Lena mines in 1897. [1] [3] Fedenev joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. [2] [3] He spent long periods in czarist prisons and was exiled. [1] [3]
He was a delegate at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. [1] He was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly from the Western Front constituency in late 1917. [4] On 26 November (9 December) 1917 he was named People's Commissar for Finance of the Obliskomzap. [5]
Following the October Revolution he was sent to Minsk, Tambov and Kharkov for party work. [3] In the 1920s he worked in Moscow. [3] He was the organizer and first chairman of the Moscow Workers Inspectorate. [1]
In 1926 he was sent to the Mainak sanatorium in Evpatoria, for treatment for ill health caused by imprisonment and exile. [3] [6] At the sanatorium he befriended Nikolai Ostrovsky, a young civil war veteran with literary ambitions. [3] [6] Fedenev became a mentor for Ostrovsky. [3] In 1932 he helped Ostrovsky get the novel How the Steel Was Tempered published in Molodaya gvardiya. [3] Ostrovsky modelled one of the characters of the novel based on Fedenev - 'Ledenev' who acts as a mentor for the main protagonist Pavel Korchagin. [3] [7]
In October 1941 Fedenev returned to Irkutsk, where he worked at an ammunition factory. [3] He remained active in cultural activities, participating in meetings with students at Irkutsk University. [3] He died in 1946. [2]
Innokenty Pavlovich Fedenev (Russian: Иннокентий Павлович Феденев) was an Old Bolshevik. Hailing from Irkutsk, Fedenev was born in 1878. [1] [2] [3] He began working in the Lena mines in 1897. [1] [3] Fedenev joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. [2] [3] He spent long periods in czarist prisons and was exiled. [1] [3]
He was a delegate at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. [1] He was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly from the Western Front constituency in late 1917. [4] On 26 November (9 December) 1917 he was named People's Commissar for Finance of the Obliskomzap. [5]
Following the October Revolution he was sent to Minsk, Tambov and Kharkov for party work. [3] In the 1920s he worked in Moscow. [3] He was the organizer and first chairman of the Moscow Workers Inspectorate. [1]
In 1926 he was sent to the Mainak sanatorium in Evpatoria, for treatment for ill health caused by imprisonment and exile. [3] [6] At the sanatorium he befriended Nikolai Ostrovsky, a young civil war veteran with literary ambitions. [3] [6] Fedenev became a mentor for Ostrovsky. [3] In 1932 he helped Ostrovsky get the novel How the Steel Was Tempered published in Molodaya gvardiya. [3] Ostrovsky modelled one of the characters of the novel based on Fedenev - 'Ledenev' who acts as a mentor for the main protagonist Pavel Korchagin. [3] [7]
In October 1941 Fedenev returned to Irkutsk, where he worked at an ammunition factory. [3] He remained active in cultural activities, participating in meetings with students at Irkutsk University. [3] He died in 1946. [2]