Background
Ivan Avksentievich Voinov was born on September 14 (26), 1885 in the village of Besovo of the Poshekhonsky district of the Yaroslavl region (now Rybinsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian Federation) in a peasant family.
Ivan Avksentievich Voinov was born on September 14 (26), 1885 in the village of Besovo of the Poshekhonsky district of the Yaroslavl region (now Rybinsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian Federation) in a peasant family.
In 1897, after a short study at a school in the village of Nikolo-Ramenie, Ivan Avksentievich was sent by a student to a ready-made dress store in Saint-Petersburg: he worked first as a "boy", then as a tailor. In 1905, he was drafted into the army - an ordinary soldier in the infantry regiment, located in Libau.
After the service, Ivan Avksentievich worked at the factories of Saint-Petersburg, and since 1910, the switchman at the Sortirovochnaya station of the Nikolaev railway.
Since 1910, the correspondent and poet of the newspaper "Star", and since 1912 - the newspaper Pravda. On May 25, 1912, for campaigning among railway workers, he was arrested and sent to his native village for 2 years. There was no place to work in the village, and in October he received permission to move to Yaroslavl, where he lived by casual work. He continued to write articles for Pravda.
In August 1913 Ivan Avksentievich returned to the village, where he was arrested and placed in Poshekhonskaya prison, and at the beginning of 1914, he was sent to Novgorod. From there, after 3 months, he fled to Petersburg, where he lived illegally. Collaborated in the illegal Bolshevik newspaper Struggle and the magazine Messenger of the clerk. October 7, being in an extremely poor financial situation, made an attempt to poison himself; He was taken to a hospital, where during treatment he was identified by the gendarmes and on December 30 he was exiled for 3 years to the Minusinsk district of the Yenisei province.
Since 1905 Ivan Avksentievich had connections with the Bolsheviks. Member of the RSDLP since 1909, Bolshevik.