title: Ivan Krivonogov
text: # Ivan Krivonogov
  
  Ivan Vasilievich Krivonogov (Russian: Иван Васильевич Кривоногов; 8 September 1866, Arkhangelsk Governorate – 1918, RSFSR) was a medical doctor, deputy of the Arkhangelsk City Duma and deputy of the Fourth Imperial Duma from the Arkhangelsk Governorate between 1913 and 1917. After February Revolution of 1917, he became a commissar of the Russian Provisional Government.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Ivan Krivonogov graduated from the Arkhangelsk gymnasium and then entered the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. After graduation, he joined the Constitutional Democratic Party and got a private medical practice. Before 1913 Krivonogov was elected as a deputy of the Arkhangelsk City Duma; simultaneously, he was a chairperson of the Society of Arkhangelsk doctors.
  
  In 1912, during the main period of elections to the Fourth Imperial Duma Krivonogov was refused by government officials to run for the office. Nevertheless, on 10 December 1913, during additional elections, he was elected to the Duma – to replace N. A. Startsev, who left the parliament "due to personal reasons".
  
  In the IV Duma, Krivonogov adjoined the Progression faction (from the second session) and became a member of a number of parliamentary commissions. With the outbreak of the First World War, he became an assistant to a head of the medical unit of the Red Cross, established on the Northwestern Front.
  
  After the February Revolution of 1917 Krivonogov carried out various assignments on behalf of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma. At the beginning of March 1917, he was sent as a commissar of the Russian Provisional Government to his homeland – Arkhangelsk – for an organization of local government and a "greeting of military units." He died in 1918.
  
  ## Family
  
  According to 1913 data, Ivan Krivonogov was married and had three children.
  
  