Yury Lutovinov

During World War I, Lutovinov worked at the Aivaz factory in Petrograd and helped arrange the transport of Bolshevik literature to the Donbas.

During the Russian Civil War, Lutovinov served at the Red Army and was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.

From 1919 to 1920 he was a secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (predecessor of the modern Russian parliament) and a chairman of the Lugansk county (Yekaterinoslav Governorate).

His letter of resignation attributed his decision specifically to his “sharp disagreement” with the Council majority on the trade union question.

[1] Recalled to Moscow in December 1923, Lutovinov was a lone voice at the communist party conference in January 1924, pleading that industrial wages should be protected.