Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly

In Russian, the committee was called Комитет членов Учредительного собрания, transliterated as Komitet chlenov uchreditelnogo sobraniya.

Two other members, N. Shmelev and V. Abramov, are named in a declaration issued by Komuch that reinstated freedoms and set forth fundamental principles.

According to William Henry Chamberlin, "A committee of five members of the dissolved Constituent Assembly, all Socialist Revolutionaries, Brushvit, Fortunatov, Klimushkin, Volsky and Nesterov, thereupon assumed civil and military power in Samara City and Province.

An eight-hour working day was established and plant and factory committees (fabzavkomy, from "fabrichno-zavodskiye komitety") and trade unions were permitted, as were conferences and congresses of workers and peasants.

[4] After Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak's coup, the provisional government and other institutions were dissolved by General Vladimir Kappel in November 1918.

Initial members of the committee. From left to right: Ivan Brushvit [ ru ] , Prokopiy Klimushkin [ ru ] , Boris Fortunatov [ ru ] , Vladimir Volsky (chairman) and Ivan Nesterov [ ru ] .