Petrov Fedor

PETROV FEDOR Nikolaevich (born in 1876), a prominent party worker. Member of the VKP(b) since 1896, physician. Engaged in the revolutionary movement since 1896, being a member of the first Marxist circles in southern Russia. Since 1903, he devoted himself exclusively to underground work. In 1905, he led the uprising of sappers in Kiev and was severely wounded. In 1906, at the conference of military-revolutionary organizations in Warsaw, he was arrested, spent about a year in prison, and at the end of 1907, by a military court, was sentenced to 7 years of hard labor for belonging to the Bolshevik social-democratic organization. After the trial, he was sent to Shlisselburg fortress, where he remained until 1915, studying the history of medicine, natural science, and the history of philosophy. From 1915 to February 1917, he was in exile in Siberia, where he worked as a physician in the village of Manzurka and in the fight against typhus in Irkutsk. For active revolutionary work in exile, he was arrested along with the late M. Frunze and other comrades. After the October Revolution, he worked in party organizations in Irkutsk and the Far East. Until 1923, he worked as a member of the Far-East Bureau of the Central Committee of the VKP(b), People's Commissar of Health of the Far Eastern Republic, head of the sanitary department of the East Siberian Soviet army, and chief sanitary inspector of the Far Eastern Republic. As chairman of the Soviet mission, he conducted negotiations with the Japanese at Gongota station and in Dairen. From 1923 to 1928, he headed the Main Scientific Administration of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. Along with scientific and organizational work, he wrote a number of methodological articles on the history of science and the application of the dialectical materialism method in various fields of scientific research. Currently, he is chairman of VOKS, deputy editor-in-chief of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, chairman of the Society for the Study of the Urals and the Far East, and a member of a number of scientific organizations.