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M. Korbut (1899-1937), so called “Red Professor” from Каzan, significantly contributed to the Russian school of historical science and authored over 120 works. His fields of interest included the Red Revolution, Russian Provisional government and its labor legislation, as well as Kazan University history. The article focuses on the pre-revolutionary Russia labor insurance which was of a particular interest for the historian. The authors tracked down and analyzed over 100 works published by Michael Korbut on the issue, as well as a number of contemporary publications on the researcher’s fate and historical heritage. The study results in evaluating the historian’s contribution to research of the workers’ compensation insurance as well as specifi cs of his discourse under the circumstances of cultural and ideological pressure imposed on science in the 1920s-1930s. M.Korbut’s main accomplishment was first publication of the archives and data on the Police Department’s participation in the insurance policy. The authors of the article reviewed a number of opinions that later led to criticism and oblivion of the researcher by the Soviet historiography. Finally, the researcher was sentenced to death as it was obvious to the official ideologists that he supported the workers’ compensation insurance conducted by the tsarist government. Moreover, he sympathized with victims of the political struggle in the USSR. The paper contributes to research of workers’ insurance history as well as to studying life and scientific heritage of the suppressed scientists.