Zimin Alexander Nikolayevich, born 1903, Russian, citizen of the USSR, native of Moscow, the son of an ex-factory owner, civil servant, incomplete higher education, Menshevik since 1920, former bureau member of RSDRM (Menshevik Youth Party), arrested 7 times for counter-revolutionary Menshevik activity, served his terms in the Solovki Camps, and twice in political isolatoin in Narym exile; has served his terms in full.
Before the arrest worked as an economist in the Saratov Oblsobez.