Nikita (Nikifor) Alekseyevich Izotov (; — January 14, 1951) was a
Soviet
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
coal miner. He is sometimes referred to (at least by specialists) as the "First
Stakhanovite
The Stakhanovite movement was a Mass movement (politics), mass cultural movement for Workforce, workers established by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party in the 1930s Soviet Union. Its promoters encouraged Rationalization (e ...
", because he was the first Soviet worker singled out by the press for a superhuman act of labor. In his case, he was praised for having mined far more coal than anyone else—dozens of times the quota.
For a brief period of time, beginning with a May 11, 1932, article in ''
Pravda
''Pravda'' ( rus, Правда, p=ˈpravdə, a=Ru-правда.ogg, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most in ...
'', Izotov was held up as a model worker, giving rise to the short-lived movement of "Izotovism", which was later eclipsed by Stakhanovism. This movement later ended during the
de-Stalinization
De-Stalinization () comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and Khrushchev Thaw, the thaw brought about by ascension of Nik ...
era.
[Great Soviet Encyclopedia: n 30 volumes ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969.]
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Russian biography
1902 births
1951 deaths
People from Kromskoy District
First convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Propaganda in the Soviet Union
Russian coal miners
Soviet coal miners
Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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