Mikhail Ivanovich Lyzlov

Background

Lyzlov Mikhail Ivanovich was born on 13 of February in 1888 in Voronezh.

Education

Mikhail Ivanovich graduated from the Voronezh non-classical secondary school, the 2nd men's gymnasium (1914), he studied at the Medical Faculty of Kharkov University.

Career

From August 1917 Mikhail Ivanovich worked on party, journalistic, and publishing work in Voronezh: member of the provincial committee of the Russian Communist Party (the Bolsheviks) and the provincial executive committee, chairman of the local Comsozhur (Union of Communist Journalists) (1919), deputy editor, editor of the "Voronezh Commune" newspaper, head of provincial branch of the Russian Telegraph Agency and provincial publishing house. Since 1921, the head of the provincial Istpart (Commission on the History of the October Revolution and the Russian Communist Party (the Bolsheviks)).

Mikhail Ivanovich published a number of researches from the past revolutionary movement in the province. He is the author of the adventure story "The Black Octopus" (Voronezh, 1926).

Editor of the party newspaper in Makhachkala (1927), Ryazan (since 1928). Since 1934, he was in responsible positions in the press department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks).

Works

• book

  • The Black Octopus

    (Adventure story)

    1926

Politics

Member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (1906). In 1908, he was arrested and exiled to the North, to the town of Velsk (he returned in 1910).