 He would for many years remain an activist in the Menshevik movement, frequently changing jobs (from 1905 to 1917 he worked variously as a turner, draftsman, machinist, carpenter, statistician, and even land surveyor) and moving to different cities (Baku, Sevastopol, Mariupol, Voronezh, Riga, and in the Don region), partly in order to avoid arrest.Still, at least twice more he spent time in tsarist prisons.Bibik began writing during his first exile in Vyatka Governorate--"out of boredom" he later claimed.