Vladimir Nevsky


Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik functionary and historian.
He was born Feodosii Ivanovich Krivobokov and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898. He was a graduate of the University of Kharkov. He became a full-time revolutionary in 1905 and was appointed Commissar of Communication in the first Soviet government.
Nevsky was the founding rector of the Sverdlov Communist University, 1919-21.