Background
ANIKST, Abram was born in 1887 in Kishinyov. Son of a worker
ANIKST, Abram was born in 1887 in Kishinyov. Son of a worker
Partial secondary educational.
From 1904 in revol movement. 1906 went underground. 1906-1907 participated in revol movement as Anarchist-Communist in Southern Russia.
1907-1917 political emigre. Worked as electrician in factories and took active part in revol trade-union movement (French Confederation of Labr, syndicalist movement of French Switzerland, etc). Also active in for groups of Russian anarchistsyndicalists.
1917 returned to Russia and joined the Bolsheviks. Chairman, Pavlograd Uyezd (Yekaterinoslav Province) Soviet of Workers' Deputy. Directed 1917 October uprising in Pavlograd.
1919-1922 Collegium member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Labor. Later Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Deputy People's Commissar of Labor. 1920 simultaneously acting deputy chairman, Main Committee for General Labor Conscription.
Late 1922 deputy chairman, Ural Oblast Economy Council. 1923 Ukraine People's Commissar of Labor. Then worked for Central Committee, Miners’ Union, and Central Committee, Construction Workers’ Union.
Late 1925-1937 Presidium member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic State Planning Committee. Arrested by State Security organs.
Member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic State Planning Committee. Communist Party member from 1918.