1. Viktor Nogin, born in Moscow, then part of the Russian Empire, was the son of a clerk.
13 Facts About Viktor Nogin
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Viktor Nogin left school at 14, and worked in a textile factory in St Petersburg.
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Viktor Nogin was arrested that same year and exiled to Poltava.
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Viktor Nogin returned to Russia, having agreed to act as a distributor of Iskra, the newspaper founded abroad by Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov.
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Viktor Nogin was arrested in April 1911, for the last time, and spent five years in prison.
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Viktor Nogin was a member of the Provisional Committee during the struggle against General Lavr Kornilov's affair in Petrograd.
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Viktor Nogin formally admitted "his mistakes" on 12 December 1917, but at Lenin's insistence, his request to be re-admitted to the Central Committee was not granted until January 1918, when he was appointed Commissar for Labour for the Moscow Region.
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In 1923, Viktor Nogin was appointed head of the Soviet textile trust.
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Viktor Nogin died soon after he had returned to Moscow.
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Viktor Nogin is buried in the Grave No 6 of the Kremlin Wall Necropolis on the Red Square, Moscow.
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Viktor Nogin married Olga Pavlovna Ermakova, with whom he had two children.
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Some Bolshevik party and government positions held by Viktor Nogin are listed below:.
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Streets named after Viktor Nogin still exist in many Russia cities, such as in Saint Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Pavlovskiy Posad, Samara, and Serpukhov.