Mark Timofeevich Yelizarov (Russian: Марк Тимофеевич Елизаров; 22 March [O.S.

At a village meeting of Bestuzhevka, the headman was allowed to dismiss him from the peasant class, which allowed a native of a peasant family to enter the physics and mathematics faculty of St. Petersburg University, from which Yelizarov graduated in 1886.

In 1905, in St. Petersburg, he was a member of the organization bureau of the 1st All-Russian Railway Congress and headed the Uzlov strike committee for which he was arrested and exiled for three years again in Syzran under police surveillance.

[1] In 1906, he moved back to Samara and joined the local RSDLP committee and worked as a journalist for newspapers, however he was not involved in revolutionary activities anymore.

[3] Yelizarov married Anna Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Vladimir Lenin's older sister in 1899.