Background
LYTKIN, Fyodor was born on August 2, 1897 in Tulun, Irkutsk Province. Son of exiled Yezid Kurd.
LYTKIN, Fyodor was born on August 2, 1897 in Tulun, Irkutsk Province. Son of exiled Yezid Kurd.
Studied at Irkutsk High-School and Tomsk University.
At Irkutsk High-School founded illegal pupils’ circle led by exiled Social-Democrats. Printed and disseminated revol proclamations among pupils. 1915 First collected verse published in Irkutsk.
Expelled from high school for political unreliability. 1917, while a student at Tomsk University, edited Bolshevik journal “Sibirskiy rabochiy”. December 1917 after establishment of Soviet regime in Tomsk, Press Commissar, Tomsk Soviet.
Member, Tomsk Executive Committee. February 1918 at 2nd All-Siberian Congress of Soviets in Irkutsk elected deputy chairman, Central Executive Committee of Siberian Soviets. Member, Transbaykal Red Army Staff.
Editor, front newspaper “Krasnoarmeyets”. July 1918, after fall of Soviet regime in Irkutsk, moved with other members of Central Executive Committee of Siberian Soviets to Transbaykal and then to Amur Oblast. September 1918 took refuge in taiga.
Communist Party member from 1917.