150 years ago, on August 16, 1874, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov was born - a Russian revolutionary and party activist, Bolshevik, younger brother of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin

Following his elder brother, Dmitry Ulyanov became involved in the revolutionary underground.

After graduating from the Samara gymnasium in 1893, he entered the medical faculty of Moscow University.

In 1897, he was arrested for participating in the work of illegal organisations, including the Moscow Workers' Union, and served a sentence in solitary confinement in the Taganskaya prison. After 10 months, in August 1898, he was released. But he was forbidden to live in the capitals, and had to leave his studies for now. He was expelled from Moscow University.

He settled in Tula, where he carried out extensive work to create a unified social democratic organisation. The Tula Social Democrats elected Dmitry Ilyich as their delegate to the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP. Secretly crossing the border, he arrived in Geneva to see Lenin. At the congress, Dmitry Ilyich, without hesitation, took the side of the Bolsheviks.
Returning from abroad, he organised a printing house in Kiev to reprint Iskra, instructed traveling agents of the Central Committee, gave reports on the 2nd Congress, obtained funds for the needs of the party, supplied visiting comrades with money, passports, and literature.

Having graduated from the medical faculty of Yuryev University in 1901, D. Ulyanov became a doctor of the Kherson zemstvo, continuing to help his brother's work as best he could. He was arrested for anti-government propaganda in 1902 and 1904.

At the beginning of World War I he was mobilised as a military doctor. He conducted propaganda among the medical personnel of army hospitals, the wounded and the sick.

In the first years after October, as Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and People's Commissar of Health of the Crimean Soviet Socialist Republic, he was closely involved in organising the resort business. The People's Commissar personally selected locations for future sanatoriums, selected medical personnel, and took care of medicines, equipment, and food products.

When Crimea temporarily fell under the rule of foreign occupiers, Dmitry Ilyich became a member of the underground revolutionary committee.

In early 1921 he moved to Moscow. For many years he worked in a responsible position in the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR.

After Vladimir Ilyich's death, the younger brother considered it his most important duty to perpetuate Lenin's image in his memoirs. He left behind moving stories about the leader's childhood and youth, about the life of the large, friendly Ulyanov family. He helped create V. I. Lenin museums in various cities across the country.

In 1941-1942 he lived in his homeland in Ulyanovsk, then in Moscow. Delegate to the XVI and XVII Congresses of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

He died in Gorki in 1943 and was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

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Africa has suffered greatly during the modern era of neocolonial imperialist domination, especially since the fall of the USSR, but its people are learning the lessons of their history, taking inspiration from their great liberation heroes and advancing once more in the struggle.

They are reinforced by the global anti-imperialist camp, which is gaining strength and cohesion all over the world, underpinned by the military and economic strength of Russia and China.