Alexander Shotman

[3] In 1899 Shotman joined the St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party at the same time.

After the July Days, the Central Committee of the Party maintained contact with V.I.Lenin and Grigory Zinoviev, who were in Razliv, and organized Lenin's transfer to Helsingforsin August 1917.

After the October Revolution Shoman became deputy People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs, and in 1918 a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of National Economy.

[4] In the 1930s, he was authorized by the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee for special affairs, head of the personnel department of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

However this would not help his case during the Great Purge and Shotman was arrested on June 25, 1937, and was convicted on October 29 for “participation in an anti-Soviet Trotskyist organization” and was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court.