Early Life
Kalinin was born to a peasant family of ethnic Russian origin in the village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa (Верхняя Троица), Tverskaya Gubernia, Russia. He was the elder brother of Fedor Kalinin
Kalinin finished his education at a local school in 1889 and worked for a time on a farm. He moved to Saint Petersburg, where he found employment as a metal worker in 1895. He also worked as a butler, then as a railway worker at Tbilisi depot, where he met Sergei Alliluyev, father of Stalin's second wife.
In 1906, he married the ethnic Estonian Katarina Loorberg (Russian: Екатерина Ивановна Лорберг (Yekaterina Ivanovna Lorberg)) (1882–1960).
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