Biography
Sergey Drigov was born 1883 in Mogilev, Russia (present-day Belarus). Worked as a laborer.
Wife and children remained in Russia. Joined the Seattle URW in April 1919, becoming financial secretary, and joined the IWW in December 1919. Arrested in Seattle in January 1920 and deported to Russia on February 1, 1921 aboard the SS Estonia.
Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.
The September 1920 One Big Union Monthly lists a detainee under the printed name "Sergey Drigoff" among IWW members then held at Ellis Island, New York, awaiting deportation to Russia. The variant spelling and deportation context identify this as the same detainee. This supplies a contemporary Ellis Island custody location, without an exact admission date, completed deportation date or complete duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n09-sep-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=59