Background
Fioletov was born into a poor peasant family in Borisoglebsk, a town in nowadays Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
Fioletov was born into a poor peasant family in Borisoglebsk, a town in nowadays Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
Elementary school.
At age of 11 started work as metalworker’s apprentice, Nobel mech workshops in Baku. July 1903 participated in strike at Balakhan oilfields. Repeatedly arrested and imprisoned.
During the December 1904 Baku strike, member of strike comt. Later worked in Croznyy and Vladikavkaz. Early 1905 returned to Baku: elected bd member, Oil Workers’ Union.
Repeatedly elected member, Baku Bolshevik Committee. 1908 exiled for three years to Sol’vychcgodsk, Vologda Province, then to Yarcnsk. After serving his term returned to Baku, continued Party work, but because of police persecution was forced to move to Tashkent and later to Cheleken Island.
1914 returned to Baku. One of the leaders. Baku general strike. After 1917 February Revol member, Executive Committee, Baku Soviet.
May 1917 elected chairman, Baku Oil Workers’ Union. September 1917, together with P. A. Dzhaparidze, leader, Baku workers’ strike. From April 1918 Economic Council chairman.
Baku Council of People's Commissar. August 1918, arrested after the collapse of Soviet regime in Baku.
He became a member of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1900 and during the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was one of the trade union activists of oil-industry workers in Groznyy and Baku.