Grigory Kramarov

Grigory Moiseevich Kramarov. Died in Moscow, 1970.

Involved in 1905 revolution in Petersburg, was arrested and eventually fled Russia, living for a time in San Franscisco. Involved in October 1917 revolution, he was a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) and took part in the civil war. Afterwards, he worked for the Comintern at the International Leninists School, as a journalist.

Kramarov was strongly involved in the promotion of rocketry and space travel in the Soviet Union, and was a founder and the chairman of the Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel in 1924. In later years, he wrote two books on the early history of space exploration in Russia, "The World's First Society of Interplanetary Flight" and "The Dawn of Cosmonautics" (1965). [Yaroslav Golovanov, "Marsianii", Molodaya Gvardiya, Moscow 1985 (a history of F.A. Tsander)]

References