 Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.Fyodor Artyom was born in the village of Glebovo, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire near the city of Fatezh to a family of a peasants.His father Andrey Arefyevich Sergeyev was a contractor to a construction porter, who in 1888 moved the family to Yekaterinoslav.