В. Володарский: Революционер және совет саяхатшысының өмірі мен қызметі

Russian politician

V. Volodarsky (В. Володарский; December 11, 1891 – June 20, 1918) (born: Moisey Markovich Goldstein) was a Marxist revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918.

V. Volodarsky was born to the family of a Jewish craftsman in Ostropol, in the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire (present day Ukraine).

In 1905, he became involved in revolutionary activity within the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia, but soon joined Spilka, the Ukrainian Social Democratic organisation which aligned itself with the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. He was briefly imprisoned in 1908 and then was politically active in Volhynia. Then in 1911 he was exiled by the government to Arkhangelsk, but was included in the general amnesty of 1913. Continued persecution led him to emigrate to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. Here he became active in the International Trade Union of Tailors and the Socialist Party. During World War I, Volodarsky sided with the internationalist Mensheviks and moved to the left. In 1916 1917, he was a contributor to the New York based newspaper of the Russian Socialist Federation, Novy Mir (New World), edited by Nikolai Bukharin.

Volodarsky was assassinated on June 20, 1918, by Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov, a member of the Central Battle Unit of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, during labour unrest at the Obukhov Works in Petrograd. He was buried at the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution on St. Petersburg's Field of Mars.

In 1918, the town of Poshekhonye was renamed Poshekhonye Volodarsk (Пошехо́нье Волода́рск). It reverted to its original name in 1992. The town Volodarsk was named after him in 1920. The sewing factory established at the seized Esders and Scheefhaals department store in 1919 was named in Goldstein's honor in 1922. Streets throughout the USSR were named in his honor; see a partial list in Russian Wikipedia. The Volodarsky Bridge, located near where he was killed, was named after him. The munitions works in Ulyanovsk was briefly renamed for him (Zavod Volodarskogo "Volodarsky's Factory") from 1928 to 1941.