Andrei Kolegayev

Andrei Lukic Kolegayev (Russian: Андрей Лукич Колегаев) (22 March 1887 – 23 March 1937) was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary and later Soviet statesman who advocated an alliance with the Bolsheviks.

He was born in Surgut, Tobolsk Governorate in the family of an exiled Narodnaya Volya revolutionary.

Kolegayev joined the Socialist-Revolutionaries in 1906 and the following year he was expelled from Kharkov University.

He participated in the October Revolution and was a delegate to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets.

He was given the post of Commissar of Agriculture, as he was a Left SR.[1] In November 1918 he broke with the Left SRs and joined the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks).