Mark Yelizarov

Mark Yelizarov
Марк Елизаров
Yelizarov in 1918
People's Commissar of Railways of the RSFSR
In office
21 November 1917  20 January 1918
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byVeniamin Sverdlov
Personal details
Born(1863-03-22)22 March 1863
Bestuzhevka village, Samara province, Russian Empire
Died10 March 1919(1919-03-10) (aged 56)
Petrograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Resting placeLiteratorskiye Mostki, Saint Petersburg
Political partyRSDLP (1898–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1919)
Spouse
(m. 1889)

Mark Timofeevich Yelizarov (Russian: Марк Тимофеевич Елизаров; 22 March [O.S. 10 March] 1863 – 10 March 1919) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman who served as the first People's Commissar of Railways of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.