Background
DOVGALEVSKIY, Valerian was born on November 23, 1885 in Kiev Province.
DOVGALEVSKIY, Valerian was born on November 23, 1885 in Kiev Province.
1913 graduate Toulouse Electr Engineer Institute.
Electr engineering by profession. From 1904 in revol movement. 1905 member. Workers and Peasants’ Union, South Russian Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Bureau.
1906 arrested in connection with Uman’ Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party organisation case. 1907 sentenced to exile for life. 1908 fled from Angara region to Krasnoyarsk and thence abroad.
1908 joined Bolsheviks. 1908-1910 secretary, Liège (Belgium) Bolshevik group, then member, Bolshevik group in Davos (Switzerland). 1911-1914 secretary, Toulouse Bolshevik organisation.
Since he lived in towns with no Russian colonies, 1915 joined left wing of French Socialist Party. Moved to Paris and headed operation and tech department of a large electr engineering enterprise. July 1917 returned to Russia.
Drafted into Russian Army. After 1917 October Revol in Red Army. Fought on Southern Front, in Siberia and on Petrograd Front.
1919 began work for People's Commissariat of Means of Communication. 1920 inspector of communications and comissar, Kiev Okrug Engineer Board. May 1921 appointed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs.
1923 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Deputy People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs. Simultaneously rector, Moscow Institute of Civil Engineer. 1924-1925 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics plenipotentiary in Sweden.
1925-1927 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics plenipotentiary in Japan. 1928-1934 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics plenipotentiary in France. October 1929 in London signed protocol for resumption of Anglo-Soviet dipl relations.
1932 signed in Paris Franco-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Attended Geneva Disarmament Conference. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ccntr Executive Committee.
Religion obstructs scientific research and technological progress.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Communist Party member from 1908.