Chairman of the All-Union Council for Communal Services by Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (1933–1937).
After the October Revolution, he became a member of the Petrograd District Committee of the RSDLP (b), People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Northern Region.
Since July 1920 member of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy and Literacy of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR.
[1] From February 16, 1928, to December 24, 1929, the People's Commissar of Agriculture of the RSFSR and then (until 1931) the chairman of the "Energocenter" of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR.
The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on November 27, 1937, was sentenced to death and shot on the same day.