Lev Karpov
Lev Iakovlevich Karpov was a Russian chemist and Bolshevik revolutionary.
Karpov, the son of a sales clerk, became a member of the Communist Party in 1897. He studied chemistry at the Moscow Higher Technical School graduating in 1910. After moving to Voronezh he became involved with the Northern Russian Workers’ Union. In 1915 he was appointed director of Bondjuschski Sawod in Mendeleyevsk, the oldest chemical factory in Russia, established in 1868, which was later renamed the Chemical Plant Karpov after him. After the october revolution he founded the Central Chemical Laboratory in Moscow in 1918 and was appointed several high-ranking positions in the soviet administration. He is buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Leonid Krasin spoke at his funeral suggesting that science would be able to restore the dead back to life:
