Career
He was an early promoter of the idea of space flight in the Soviet Union, actively advancing the concept from the 1920s. Involved in the 1905 revolution in Saint St. Petersburg, Kramarov was arrested and eventually fled Russia, living for a time in San Francisco. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1907.
Afterwards, he worked for the Communist International at the International Leninists School, as a journalist.
In later years, he wrote two books on the early history of space exploration in Russia, "The World"s First Society of Interplanetary Flight" and "The Dawn of Cosmonautics" (1965). Kramarov is a small lunar crater.
Kramarov died in Moscow in 1970 and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
