[2] In 1917, he became a member of the Kronstadt Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks),[3] Chairman of the Council of Soldiers' and Sailors' Deputies, delegate to the 7th (April) All–Russian Conference and 6th and 7th Congresses of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee at the Main Telegraph and Commissar of the Kexholm Reserve Regiment.

In January – May 1918, he was Chairman of the Kronstadt Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks).

In 1919–1920 he was the Deputy People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Head of the Communications Department of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

[2] In 1920–1921, he was acting People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.

In 1928–1934 he was Commissioner of the People's Commissariat of Communications of the Soviet Union for the Far East, Eastern Siberia.

[1] The memoirs of the Belarusian party worker Yakov Drobinsky describe the methods of investigation in the Minsk Central Prison in 1938: "At ten he was again led through this corridor, into this room – but what a difference!

Convicted on June 28, 1938, by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union to capital punishment.