Background
ANTONOV, Aleksandr was born in 1891 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a worker
ANTONOV, Aleksandr was born in 1891 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a worker
Attended factory school. 1912 graduate night school for workers in Saint St. Petersburg.
Worked as messenger-boy, then from 1903 as apprentice foreman, Westinghouse Plant, Saint St. Petersburg. 1905 joined revol movement. Acted as contact man, collected money for Party lit, distributed illegal publ, took part in work of factory clubs run by the Znaniye-svet cultural and educational society
1912-1913 military service. From 1914 electrician, Obukhov Plant, Petrograd: 1915-1916 deputy, Petrograd Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee, headed Neva Rayon Party Committee. July 1916 transferred to Kronstadt, then to Nikplayev.
February 1917 returned to Petrograd and headed Obukhov Subrayon Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Simultaneously chairman. Presidium, Neva Rayon Party' Committee: October 1917 deputy commandant, Neva Rayon, and comissar at Obukhov Plant.
Headed deleg of workers of this plant at 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets. After 1917 October Revol became first Communist director, Obukhov Plant. Spring 1919 drafted and sent to the front: comissar, then chief, Engineer Supplies Board, Southern Front.
Later member. Secretariat of Party Cells, Staff of the Southern Front. 1920 chief and military comissar. Supply Board, 14th Army.
1921 plenipotentiary for production supplies in the Ukraine. 1922-1924 Presidium member, Moscow City Trade-Union Council. Deputy, Moscow Soviet and candidate member, Moscow Party Committee.
1925 transferred to work in glass industry. Duties entailed several visits to Germany, England and United States of America. From 1930 at Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics trade mission in Germany.
From 1933 director, Glass Research Institute. Until 1956 at Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of Light Indiana. From 1956 pensioner; helped compile compendia: Doneseniya komissarov Petrogradskogo voyenno-revolyutsionnogo komiteta (Reports of the Commissars of the Petrograd Military-Revolutionary Committee) (1957).
Rayony Pctrograda v dvukh revolyutsiyakh (Petrograd Districts in Two Revolutions).
Communist Party member from 1914.