Ilya Andreyevich Mayorov

Илья Андреевич Майоров

Left SR Central Committee member who drafted the land socialization law; husband of Spiridonova

A Left SR Central Committee member from a peasant family in Kazan province, Mayorov was Deputy Commissar of Agriculture in 1918 and drafted the land socialization law with Kolegayev. On 24 June 1918 he and Spiridonova were elected to the bureau charged with terror against representatives of German imperialism, and at the November trial he was given three years in his absence. In exile in Ufa he married Spiridonova. Arrested in 1937, he was shot with her in the Medvedev Forest near Oryol on 11 September 1941.

Also known as: Ilya Maiorov

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