Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov (; – 16 July 1943) was a Russian and Soviet physician and revolutionary, the younger brother of Aleksandr Ulyanov and

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. As a medical student at Lomonosov Moscow State University, he became involved with revolutionary activity and joined the illegal

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''Rabochiy soyuz'' ("Workers' Union"). He was first arrested in 1897. The following year he was exiled to Tula, then Podolsk, where he was put under police supervision (equivalent to modern probation). As his brother's renown grew, he endured countless arrests. In 1900 he became a correspondent of '' Iskra''. The following year he graduated from the medical school of the

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. As a doctor and a Marxist, Ulyanov sought to apply his medical training to the revolutionary struggle. During the

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he provided medical aid to strikers in Simbirsk. He became a trusted cadre of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party and was a delegate to its 2nd Congress. He served as the representative of the Central Committee in

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. His duties carried him throughout Russia and Ukraine, first to

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, then to Feodosiya and

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. At the beginning of the

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, Ulyanov was mobilized into the army. He served as a medical officer in

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, in

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, and on the

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n front, continuing his revolutionary activities on the side. In 1916 he married Antonia Ivanovna Neshcheretova. They had a son, Viktor, and a daughter, Olga. Ulyanov remained in Ukraine during the aftermath of the

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and the

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, working to strengthen the party apparatus in Crimea and was chairman of the short-lived Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic.Alan W. Fisher. ''The Crimean Tatars''. Hoover Press, 1978. p. 128. In 1921 he moved to

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, where he worked at Narkomzdrav (People's Commissariat of Public Health), at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, in the health research department of the Kremlin, and at the V. I. Lenin Central Museum. During the 1930s, he collaborated with his sister Maria (who was named after their

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) to write reminiscences about their famous brother, Vladimir Lenin, which were published in serial form. He was a delegate to the 16th and 17th Congresses of the

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. He died in Gorki Leninskiye and was buried in Moscow. Many streets and localities in the Soviet Union were renamed in his honor.

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