Background
Mikhail Sergeevich Sergushev (real name Aksenov Markel Prokopyevich) was born in 1886 in village Korovino in Moscow Oblast (now Moscow City, Russian Federation). He came from the family of peasants.
Mikhail Sergeevich Sergushev (real name Aksenov Markel Prokopyevich) was born in 1886 in village Korovino in Moscow Oblast (now Moscow City, Russian Federation). He came from the family of peasants.
Mikhail Sergeevich became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) in 1904. He began his revolutionary activities in Riga. He was arrested in 1905. In 1907, he was exiled to Eastern Siberia.
Mikhail Sergeevich was the secretary of Sormov Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) in the period from July to December 1917. In October 1917, he became a member of the headquarters of the Red Guard of Nizhny Novgorod, member of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) and the local union of workers and soldiers' deputies. He was the secretary and then chairman of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from December 1917 to 1919.
Mikhail Sergeevich was the chairman of Voronezh Oblast Party Committee from 1919 to 1920. From 1920 to 1921, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Turkestan, head of the department of the Central Committee. He worked in the administration of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1921 and from 1924, in the Central Control Commission of the Workers and Peasants’ Inspection. He was a delegate of the VI-XVI congresses of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and member of the Central Control Commission in 1924.
