 He later moved to Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov, where he found work in the railroad shops, though his real goal (he later tells us) was to enter into a sailing school in order to fulfill a dream of sailing the seas.The death of his father in 1898 forced him to return home once again to his family in Kharkov and to work as a turner on the railroad.In the late 1890s, Bibik joined an underground workers’ circle and soon after joined the local social democratic organization in Kharkov.