11 Facts About Nikolai Uglanov

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov was a Russian Bolshevik politician and Soviet statesman who played an important role in the government of the Soviet Union as a Communist Party leader in the city of Moscow during the 1920s.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov was born 5 December 1886 to an ethnic Russian peasant family in the village of Feodoritskoye in Yaroslavl Governorate, located approximately 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow.

Nikolai Uglanov was introduced to radical ideas at an early age, beginning his participation in the revolutionary movement in 1903, distributing illegal literature and storing sensitive documents for underground activists.

Nikolai Uglanov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party himself in 1907.

Uglanov was arrested for the first time by the Okhrana early in the summer of 1914 but he was released from captivity and inducted into the Army and sent to the front lines to fight for the Tsarist regime in World War I In November 1914 Uglanov was severely wounded and was returned to Petrograd, where he recovered and resumed his secret revolutionary activity.

Nikolai Uglanov became a functionary in the Soviet trade union movement and was selected as the head of the Petrograd Guberniia council of trade unions in 1919.

In February 1921 Nikolai Uglanov succeeded Sergey Zorin as secretary of the Petrograd guberniia committee of the Russian Communist Party [RKP].

Nikolai Uglanov was sent to the city of Nizhny Novgorod in 1922 where he was made the head of the regional party organization.

Nikolai Uglanov would remain as head of the Nizhny Novgorod organization until the summer of 1924.

Nikolai Uglanov was expelled from the Party along with Ryutin in autumn 1932 in what is known as the Ryutin Affair.

Nikolai Uglanov was arrested on 23 August 1936, sentenced to death on 31 May 1937 and shot the same day.