Wolfson, Samuel Davydovich

Born in the Vilnius province on January 4, 1879 . In 1894 he graduated from the Riga Polytechnic College , receiving a diploma in chemical engineering. He joined the revolutionary movement in Switzerland (Winterthur - Zurich ), where he studied since 1899. In 1902 he joined the Zurich group of the RSDLP and, after the split of the party, joined the Bolsheviks . In 1903, he left his studies and went to revolutionary work in Russia. After six months of traveling as an organizer propagandist in the south of Russia, at the end of 1903 he joined the propaganda group of the Yekaterinoslav Committee. After two arrests in the winter of 1904-1905, Yekaterinoslav was forced to leave and began to work in the Donbass. When the strike of the miners of the Shcherbinovsky district was defeated in 1905, he was arrested as one of its leaders, and until October 1905 was in the Lugansk prison. He left for Samara, where as a member of the Samara Committee of the Party, he took a direct part in the publication of the newspaper Samarskaya Luka (pseudonym S. Davydov). After his arrest, he was sent to establish identity in the Vilnius province (the place where the passport was issued), but fled to Vilna. Six months later he was again arrested, after which he emigrated to Switzerland. From there, he was sent to clandestine work in the Baku organization, was a member of the Baku Committee and organizer in Balakhani, worked in the editorial office of “Baku Worker” (1908).

Having contracted tuberculosis, he left for Sukhum and soon returned to Vilna, where he was again arrested. He was deported for two years under the public supervision of the police in Pastavy of the Disney county of Vilna province. In 1911, for some time, he abandoned active revolutionary work; on May 3, 1911, in the town of Malat, he married Tamara Akimovna Rivesman (1886—?), The niece of the writer M. S. Rivesman . Before the war he served as a clerk in a tannery; during the war he left for Moscow, joined the Central Union and after the February Revolution was one of the organizers of the Bolshevik cell in the Central Union. In the spring of 1917 he was sent to the Crimea for grain procurement, where he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Simferopol Council.

He participated in the 1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets , after which he continued to work in Moscow, where he worked in the Food Committee, the Central Union and at the same time conducted party work in the Lefortovo district. He was elected from the workers and employees of the Central Union to the Moscow Council.

On the eve of the October Revolution, Wulfson was the chairman of the Bolshevik fraction of the Lefortovo District Duma, was a member of the Council of District Dumas; Then he took a leading part in the work of a number of food organizations in Moscow.

In 1919 he was People's Commissar of Food and Trade of the Provisional Workers and Peasants Government of the Crimean SSR. With the fall of Soviet power in Crimea, he returned to Moscow and was elected chairman of the Moscow Consumer Society. Since the end of 1919, he worked on supplying the army on the fronts (pre-food army of the VIII army, deputy food-product of the south-western front, and food-product of the southern front). After the defeat of the army, Wrangel joined the Military Revolutionary Committee of Crimea and the Crimean Regional Committee of the RCP (B) ^[1] .

Upon returning to Moscow in 1921, he became a member of the Moscow Party Committee and a member of the Presidium of the Moscow Soviet ^[2] . In 1924 he went to work in Vneshtorg (trade missions in Italy and Austria ). Since 1927, he conducted leadership work on grain export in Moscow.

In 1929, due to a severe exacerbation of tuberculosis, he went abroad, where he combined treatment with work. He died in Berlin on March 18, 1932.

• Wulfson, Samuel (Semen) Davydovich // Figures of the revolutionary movement in Russia : in 5 volumes / ed. F. Ya. Kona et al. - M .: All-Union Society of Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers , 1927-1934. - T. 5, no. 2. - St. 1069-1070.