Nikita (Nikifor) Alekseyevich Izotov (Russian:Никита (Никифор) Алексеевич Изотов; February 9 [O.S. January 27] 1902 — January 14, 1951) was aSoviet coal miner. He is sometimes referred to (at least by specialists) as the "FirstStakhanovite", because he was the first Soviet worker singled out by the press for a superhuman act of labor. In his case, he was praised for having mined far more coal than anyone else—dozens of times the quota.[1]
For a brief period of time, beginning with a May 11, 1932, article inPravda, Izotov was held up as a model worker, giving rise to the short-lived movement of "Izotovism", which was later eclipsed by Stakhanovism. This movement later ended during thede-Stalinization era.[2]
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