Iosif Nagovitsyn

Iosif Alekseevich Nagovitsyn (September 18, 1888 – November 21, 1937) was a Soviet statesman, People's Commissar of Social Security of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1926–1937).

Biography
Born in the village of Omutnitsa (now in the Glazovsky District of Udmurtia) in an Udmurt peasant family. He graduated from a three–year school, entered the Glazov City School, where in 1903, he became close to the Marxists. From 1904, he studied at the Vyatka Agricultural School, where he became a member of the Social Democratic Circle. In 1905, he was expelled from the school for participating in a student strike. He actively participated in the revolution: he distributed leaflets, campaigned among the peasants in Russian and Udmurt languages. In 1905–1907, he conducted party work in Vyatka, Glazov, Yekaterinburg, then was sent to Kyshtym, where he became a member of the Ufaley–Kyshtym District Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Conducted campaign work during the elections to the Second Duma. In 1907, he was arrested, in 1908, he was exiled to the Yenisei Governorate. In 1913, he emigrated, lived in Belgium, France, Great Britain, participated in foreign organizations of the Bolsheviks. At the end of 1918, he returned to Russia, worked at the Yakov Sverdlov Communist University, from 1919, he headed the Votyak Commissariat – the department of the People's Commissariat for Nationality Affairs. Since 1921, Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Votyak Autonomous Region, chairman of the executive committee of the Regional Soviet, member of the Bureau of the Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In 1925–1926, he was a member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Chairman of the Council for the Education of National Minorities.

In 1926–1937 – People's Commissar of Social Security of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

He died in 1937 from pulmonary tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Miskhor, Crimea. He was treated in the sanatorium "Mountain Sun". The year of death contributed to the widespread myth in literature that Nagovitsyn was arrested, sentenced to death and shot.

Reburied at the Old City Cemetery of Yalta from the Livadia Cemetery. Iosif Nagovitsyn was the great–uncle of Sergey Nagovitsyn.

Remembrance

 * On October 28, 1957, the former Budyonny Lane, by the decision of the executive committee of the Izhevsk City Council, was named Nagovitsyn Street;
 * Streets in Mozhga and Glazov were named after Nagovitsyn;
 * On November 24, 2020, the deputies of the State Council of the Udmurt Republic included Nagovitsyn's birthday in the list of memorable dates of the republic.