From August 1917 to June 1919, he was Secretary of the Tver City Council of Deputies, and from December 1918 to February 1919 he was Chairman of the Provincial Executive Committee.

[1][2] From December 1934 to July 1937, he was the First Secretary of the newly created Orenburg Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

[3] During this period, mass repressions took place in the Orenburg Oblast,[4][5][6] during which, in particular, all members of the Bureau of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) were killed.

[10] The son, Yuri Alexandrovich Gorkin (born in 1921), a participant in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded orders and medals.

He graduated with honors from the Moscow Higher Technical School named after Nikolai Bauman with a degree in radio electronics.