They settled in Samara, where he worked as a railroad engineer, and they handled distribution of the newspaper Iskra, founded by Lenin, using the aliases 'Clair' and 'The Snail'.

He travelled to Geneva afterwards hoping to reunite the two factions, but realised that mutual hostility had risen to such a pitch that it was no longer possible.

Krzhizhanovsky returned to prominence in January 1920, when, with Lenin's encouragement, he published an article in Pravda on entitled 'Tasks of Electrification of Industry'.

[8] In February, he was appointed head of Goelro, the hundred strong commission charged with putting into practice Lenin's latest slogan – "Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country.'

[9] Krzhizhanovsky was appointed to the editorial board of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, contributing several articles concerning electricity and planning.