Konstantin Voskoboinik was born in 1895 in the town of Smela, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Smila, Cherkasy Oblast, in central Ukraine) into the family of a railroad worker of Ukrainian ethnicity.

[2] In 1915 he entered the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University, in 1916 he volunteered to serve in World War I and graduated from the Warrant Office School.

In 1919, amidst the Russian Civil War, he joined the Red Army, and in 1920 he was wounded and demobilised as unfit for military service.

Here Voskoboinik graduated from the electromechanical faculty of the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy and worked as the head of electrical workshop at the All-Union Chamber of Weights and Measures.

Beginning in 1938 Voskoboinik worked as a physics teacher at the Brasov Hydromelioration College in Lokot, Bryansk Oblast, where he met and became friends with Bronislav Kaminski.

Voskoboinik founded the People's Socialist Party of Russia (PSPR) and wrote a manifesto for it under the pseudonym Engineer of the Earth (KPV).

It is likely that in the combination of these two parts of the program, the leaders of the Lokot Autonomy, fascinated by German Nazism, saw nothing less than their own, Russian National Socialism.

Taking into account Voskoboinik's organizational skills, a month later, on 16 October 1941, the German authorities significantly expanded his powers: the police detachment was increased to 200 men, Voskoboinik was subordinated to the settlements adjacent to Lokot, and the Lokot parish was formed, in which rural self-defense units were created.

[6] On the night of 8 January 1942, Soviet partisans under the command of Alexander Saburov, having made a winter rush on 120 sledges, carried out an attack on the barracks of the local police and the house of the burgomaster.