 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Munguva ya19141916 aive mutapwa wemukati muTurukhansk, Siberia, pamwe naJoseph Stalin aizivikanwa saDzhugashvili. Vose vakanga vatengeswa nomusori weOkhrana Roman Malinovsky. Pamusoro paStalin, Sverdlov akanyora kuti Shamwari yandaiva nayo yakava munhu akadaro, munzanga, zvokuti hatina kutaura kana kuonana. Zvaityisa. Kufanana naStalin, akasarudzwa asiripo kumusangano wePrague muna 1912. Muna 1914, Sverdlov akatamira kune mumwe musha, achigara neshamwari yake Filipp Goloshchyokin, aizivikanwa saGeorges. Mukutanga kwa1917, Sverdlov akagamuchira nhau dzokuramwa basa kwaPutilov kwa1917 muPetrograd. Pamwe chete naGoloshchyokin, akabuda pakarepo, achisvika muPetrograd musi wa29 March 1917 