Lyubimov joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902.
From 1906 to 1907 he worked as a professional revolutionary in Ivanovo-Voznesensk and was the responsible leader of the elections to the 2nd and 3rd State Dumas in the Vladimir Province.
From 1910 to 1911 he organized the distribution of social-democratic and professional magazines in the factories of Nizhny Novgorod and Sormov, and worked in the unions of printers and tailors.
In March 1917, together with Mikhail Frunze, he was the organizer of the Council of Soldiers 'and Workers' Deputies in Minsk.
[2] From July to August 1917 Lyubimov was Chairman of the Minsk Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.
From October 1917 he Mayor of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and rom November 22, 1917, Lyubimov was chairman airman of the Ivanovo-Voznesenskaya Council.
In 1921 he was a member of the Presidium of the National Economy Council of the Ukrainian SSR, secretary of the Southern Bureau of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, and a member of the Presidium of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.
[2] At the June Plenum of the Central Committee in 1937, Lyubimov was accused of political disloyalty and connections with the exposed "enemies of the people", after which, by a resolution of the plenum of June 25, 1937, a "political no-confidence" was declared against Lyubimov and several other members of the Central Committee.
On September 7, 1937, he was removed from the post of People's Commissar of Light Industry of the USSR without being granted a new position.
On November 27, 1937, the verdict was formally approved by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union and Lyubimov was executed on the same day.