Innokenty Pavlovich Fedenev (russian: link=no, Иннокентий Павлович Феденев) was an

Old Bolshevik Old Bolshevik (russian: ста́рый большеви́к, ''stary bolshevik''), also called Old Bolshevik Guard or Old Party Guard, was an unofficial designation for a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Par ...

. Hailing from

Irkutsk Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...

, Fedenev was born in 1878.
Ostrovsky
'. Molodai͡a gvardii͡a, 1968. p. 428
Nikolay Ostrovsky
'. Библиотека "Огонек", 1969. p. 460 He began working in the Lena mines in 1897. Fedenev joined the

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; in , ''Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)''), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist pol ...

in 1904.Vitaly Zorkin
Иркутянин Иннокентий Феденев – герой знаменитого советского романа
/ref> He spent long periods in czarist prisons and was exiled. He was a delegate at the

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. He was elected to the

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from the Western Front constituency in late 1917. On November 26 (December 9), 1917 he was named People's Commissar for Finance of the

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. Following the

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he was sent to

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, Tambov and

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for party work. In the 1920s he worked in Moscow. He was the organizer and first chairman of the Moscow Workers Inspectorate. In 1926 he was sent to the Mainak sanatorium in

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, for treatment for ill health caused by imprisonment and exile.Valerii Ivanovich Timofeev
Николаи Островский: критико-биографический очерк
Гос. учебно-педагог. изд-во, 1957. p. 21 At the sanatorium he befriended

Nikolai Ostrovsky Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky (russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Остро́вский; uk, Мико́ла Олексі́йович Остро́вський; 29 September 1904 – 22 December 1936) was a Soviet socialist realist w ...

, a young civil war veteran with literary ambitions. Fedenev became a mentor for Ostrovsky. In 1932 he helped Ostrovsky get the novel '' How the Steel Was Tempered'' published in '' Molodaya gvardiya''. Ostrovsky modelled one of the characters of the novel based on Fedenev - 'Ledenev' who acts as a mentor for the main protagonist Pavel Korchagin.
Nikolay Ostrovsky
'. Gos. izd-vo khudozh. lit-ry, 1956. p. 440 In October 1941 Fedenev returned to Irkutsk, where he worked at an ammunition factory. He remained active in cultural activities, participating in meetings with students at

Irkutsk University Irkutsk State University (russian: Ирку́тский госуда́рственный университе́т) was founded in October 1918 in Irkutsk, Siberia. Nowadays Irkutsk State University is a large scientific and educational instituti ...

. He died in 1946.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fedenev, Innokenty 1878 births 1946 deaths People from Irkutsk Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Russian Constituent Assembly members Old Bolsheviks