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Viktor Pavlovich

NOGIN

1878–1924

Chairman of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet of Workers' Deputies

19 September – 13 November 1917

Born in Moscow into the family of a shop-assistant. Weaver by profession. Member of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) from 1898. Repeatedly arrested and exiled, he spent time in almost all of Russia's large jails.

In 1917 he was one of the leaders of the Moscow branch of Bolsheviks. A member of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet of Workers' Deputies. At the Sixth Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (July-August 1917) he was elected member of the Central Committee, where he occupied a cautious position with regard to the preparation for the armed uprising. He was a member of the Provisional Committee for the struggle against the Kornilov revolt. On 5 September 1917 a joint plenary session of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies adopted the Bolshevik resolution on power. V.P. Nogin replaced Menshevik L.M. Khinchuk in the post of chairman of the Moscow Soviet of Workers' Deputies from which the latter had resigned.

At the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets he was elected as member of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and appointed People's Commissar of Trade and Industry in the first cabinet of the Council ofPeople's Commissars. From 26 October to 1 November 1917, while working in the Moscow Military and Revolutionary Committee, he strove to avoid bloodshed in the city. It was on his initiative that the Military and Revolutionary Committee held negotiations with the Committee of Public Security and the command of the Moscow military district. On 1 November 1917 at a session of the Central Committee of he RSDLP (B) he advocated the creation of a coalition government consisting of representatives from all socialist parties. He argued that the preservation of a purely Bolshevik government would only be possible with the use of political terror. On 4 November 1917 he left the government and Central Committee. On 29 November the Central Committee examined a declaration of VE Nogin in which he admitted his mistakes.

From 17 November 1917 he was labour commissar of the Moscow Region and a deputy to the Constituent Assembly. From April 1918 he was Deputy People's Commissar of Labour of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and thereafter carried out crucial state and economic tasks. V.P Nogin did much for the restoration of the textile industry and enjoyed great authority in foreign trade and industry circles.

Buried in the Kremlin wall on Red Square.