Nadezhda Kolesnikova

She served as People's Commissar of Education of the Baku Council of People's Commissars, a rector of the Academy of Communist Education named after Nadezhda Krupskaya (1929–1933), and a delegate of the 15th and 16th Congresses of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

During the December armed uprising of 1905 in Moscow, Drobinskaya planned to organize a free canteen for orphans at her school.

The chief of staff of the "military squads" of Presnya district Zinoviy Litvin-Sedoy, having learned about this, found the necessary kitchen equipment and food (cereals, meat, potatoes, etc.)

[2] Drobinskaya became the commandant of the Presnya "druzhinnik" headquarters, where she organized a food service for workers belonging to the "military squads," orphans, women, and the elderly.

She worked in the Baku organization of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) from 1907 to 1909.

As a cover, she worked as a teacher in a Baku school, teaching Russian language and literature.

In August 1917, together with her husband, she moved to Baku, where she took an active part in the establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan.

In the summer of 1919, being the chairman of the Astrakhan provincial committee, Kolesnikova came to Moscow for treatment, where she met Nadezhda Krupskaya, who offered her to become her deputy.

She was a member of the "purge" commission in the party organization of the Air Force of the Red Army in the early 1930s.