Nakhimson (Nachimsohn) Semyon Mikhailovich (1885, Libava, Grobin District, Courland Governorate — 1918, Yaroslavl) — political figure, Doctor of Philosophical and Economic Sciences.

Semyon Nakhimson graduated from the University of Bern in 1911. From 1902 he was a member of the Bund, later joining the Latvian Social Democratic Workers’ Party. In 1905 he was one of the leaders of the Libava military-revolutionary organization of the Bund. For preparing an uprising of the garrison he was sentenced to death in absentia.

In 1906 he was a delegate to the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP. From 1907 to 1911 he lived in emigration. After returning to Russia in 1912, he collaborated with the party press.

From 1915 to 1917 he served in the army with the rank of ensign. In early 1917 he was brought before a military field court for revolutionary agitation. In 1917 he became a member of the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks) and of the Military Section of the Petrograd Soviet, and was a delegate to the Sixth Congress of the RSDLP (B).

In September 1917 he was appointed commissar of the Latvian Riflemen. He was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) of the First Convocation and was re-elected at the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets. He was also a member of the Constituent Assembly.

In 1918 Semyon Nakhimson served as Military Commissar of the Yaroslavl Military District and Chairman of the Provincial Executive Committee. He was executed during the Yaroslavl Uprising. He was buried at the Field of Mars in Petrograd.

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