1 April] 1879 – 1937) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, journalist, literary critic, and writer.

Kanatchikov was born in 1879 into a peasant family and became a worker from a young age, eventually becoming employed at the Gustav List Metal Works in Moscow.

[1] He was a member of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) after its founding.

[3] He published his memoirs, A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov, in the 1920s.

He was a professor of the Faculty of Soviet Law at Moscow State University (1925–1926) where he taught a course on the history of the party.

In April 1938 he was included in the list of persons whose works were subject to unconditional withdrawal from libraries.