Nikolai Chuzhak

[1] Chuzhak was a son of a poor craftsman and violinist who was attracted to the social democratic movement in 1896.

[1] He returned to Russia and involved himself in revolutionary politics in St Petersburg, attending the RSDLP conference for military and combat organizations held in Tammerfors in 1906.

Following the February Revolution of 1917 he joined the unified committee of the RSDLP in Irkutsk and started editing Rabochaia Sibir’.

[1] He remained in the Far East of Russia heading the Press department of the regional bureau of the RCP(B), editing Krasnoe znamia (Vladivostok), Dal’nevostochnyi put’ (Chita), and Vlast’ Truda in Irkutsk.

[1] He moved to Moscow in 1922 and joined LEF, helping to draft the group's founding documents.