Konstantin Vasilyevich Ostrovityanov (Russian: Константин Васильевич Островитянов; 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1892 – 9 February 1969) was a Soviet Marxist economist, academic and public figure.
Biography
He was born into the family of a village priest. In 1912 he graduated from the Tambov Theological Seminary. In the same year he entered the Kiev Commercial Institute and a year later he transferred to the Moscow Commercial Institute, from which he graduated in 1917. From 1914, Ostrovityanov was a member of the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP.
In 1916 he was elected a member of the underground Moscow Committee of the RSDLP (B). He was arrested and until February 1917 was in prison in Moscow.
From October 1917 he was secretary of the Zamoskvoretsky Military Revolutionary Committee of Moscow and rom 1917 to 1918 he worked as secretary of the factory committee and head of the department of public education.
