He finished a parish school in Orenburg and passed gymnasia examinations without attending classes, after which he entered the University of St. Petersburg.
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He was born in the family of a railway repair-shop worker in Orenburg in the Southern Urals.
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He also participated in compiling the Technical Encyclopedia and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
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