this group was headed by Fyodor Kalinin, a member of the Party since 1903.
the first office personel at the People's commissariat of Social Insurance were medical nurses, doctors assistants, and workers and mechanics from the Petrograd factories; on the staff of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs were workers from the Putilov steel Plant and students of Petrograd University, the electro-Technical Institute and other educational establishments; the People's Commissariat for the Railways employed a group of non-party printing workers and Bolshevik workers from the central workshops of the North-Western Railway.