There he met representatives of the city's progressive intelligentsia, read revolutionary literature and participated in illegal meetings.
Having left for the steppe regions of the province, he conducted revolutionary propaganda among the Kazakhs, and then returned to his homeland, going to work as a teacher in a zemstvo school.
Having come under police surveillance, in 1908 he was forced to leave for Astrakhan, where he joined an underground organization, while simultaneously working in the legal newspaper Idel, from where he was expelled a year later for revolutionary articles.
[1] After the October Revolution, Mansurov traveled to Petrograd, where he took part in the organization of the Central Muslim Commissariat, in which he headed the labor department.
Together with Sahib Said-Galiyev, he organized the translation of Marxist literature into Tatar, Azerbaijani, Persian, Kazakh, Uzbek and other oriental languages.
At the end of June 1921, he was recalled to the apparatus of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), and then appointed editor of the all-Russian newspaper “Igencheler” (“Grain Growers”).