About the book: 1979 / The book tells about the life path of the remarkable worker revolutionary, organizer and leader of the Northern Union of Russian Workers Stepan Khalturin. His activities are inextricably linked with the first steps of the proletarian struggle in Russia. The author shows how Stepan Khalturin’s worldview developed, his relationship with the revolutionary democratic intelligentsia, reveals his role in the emergence of the labor movement in Russia.