Vasiliy Averin

[1] Averin was born in 1884 or 1885 near Rognedino in the Roslavlsky Uyezd of the Smolensk Governorate of the Russian Empire (today Rognedinsky District, Bryansk Oblast, Russia) in a poor peasant family.

Averin began his revolutionary career in Ekaterinoslav, where in October 1905 he headed a factory committee of the RSDLP.

He was released in April 1917 on amnesty due to the February Revolution in Russia and returned to Ekaterinoslav.

In 1921-23 Averin was a governor and mayor of Odessa, while at that time being a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

[3] In 1935 Averin was appointed the chief of the Lena River Shipping Company and transferred to Yakutsk.