Mikhail Olminsky

3 October] 1863 – May 8, 1933) (real surname: Aleksandrov) was a prominent Russian Bolshevik particularly involved with Party history and also an active literary scholar and publicist.

He took part in a conference of 22 Bolsheviks held in Geneva in summer 1904 which agreed the letter To the party which paved the way for the Bolshevik-Menshevik split.

[3] Olminskye returned to St Petersburg during the 1905 Revolution and worked on the editorial board of several Bolshevik newspapers, including Novaya Zhizn.

In 1916, he moved to Moscow, where he was co-opted onto the regional bureau of the RSDLP, and edited the trade union newspaper, Голос печатного труда.

He was an early specialist in the history of the Bolshevik organisation, who did a great deal of work collecting and publishing the writings of Lenin, and Georgi Plekhanov, and other documents and memoirs.