convinced that if we were to falter in lashing out at the hydra of counter-revolution it would devour not only us but along with us the hopes that October had raised all over the world. He was against the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, but remained silent on the topic in order to maintain party discipline. Death Volodarsky was assassinated on June 20, 1918 by Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov, a member of the Central Battle Unit of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, during labour unrest at the Obukhov Works in Petrograd. He was buried at the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution on St. Petersburg's Field of Mars. Honors In 1918, the town of Poshekhonye was renamed Poshekhonye-Volodarsk (Пошехо́нье-Волода́рск). It reverted to its original name in 1992. The town Volodarsk was named after him in 1920. The sewing factory established at the seized Esders and Scheefhaals department store in 1919 was named in Goldstein's honor in 1922. Streets throughout the USSR were named in his honor; see a partial list in Russian Wikipedia. The Volodarsky Bridge, located near where he was killed, was named after him. The munitions works in Ulyanovsk was briefly renamed for him (Zavod Volodarskogo - "Volodarsky's Factory") from 1928 to 1941. See also Pishchalauski Castle, prison building in Minsk, Belarus, known after the 1918 revolution as the Volodarka, after the "V. Volodarsky Street" on which it stands References External links Anatoly Lunacharsky on Volodarsky 1891 births 1918 deaths People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast People from Volhynian Governorate Ukrainian Jews Bundists Mensheviks Mezhraiontsy Old Bolsheviks Jewish socialists Jewish Soviet politicians People murdered in Russia Assassinated Russian politicians Assassinated Jews Russian revolutionaries Ukrainian revolutionaries Burials on the Field of Mars (Saint Petersburg)