Borodin akaberekwa Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg () kumhuri yechiJudha muYanovichi, Russian Empire, zvino chikamu cheVitebsk Region, Belarus, musi wa 9 Chikunguru 1884. Achiri muduku, akatanga basa rokugadzira zvikepe muWestern Dvina, achiyambuka rwizi rwacho pakati peVitebsk, Dvinsk, neRiga, yava guta guru reLatvia. Gare gare akatamira kuRiga, kwaakapinda zvikoro zvemanheru zvomutauro wokuRussia achishanda pachiteshi chengarava cheguta racho. Akabatana neGeneral Jewish Labour Bund pazera ramakore gumi nematanhatu, achichinja kuvimbika kuVladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks muna 1903. Akava shamwari yepedyo yaLenin, achishandisa zivo yake yemitauro yechiYiddish, chiGerman, uye chiLatvia mubasa somumiriri weBolshevik munharaunda yokuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero youmambo. Pakati pa1904, akarayirwa kuenda kuSwitzerland kunosangana naLenin, uyo akanga aenda kunhapwa. Kutevera "Svondo Rine Ropa" kuurayiwa kwevaratidziri vasina zvombo nemauto eZarist muSaint Petersburg musi wa9 Ndira 1905, Borodin akadzokera kuRussia, akaronga basa reshanduko muRiga, uye akazosarudzwa kuti apinde musangano weBolshevik
MuTampere, uko akasangana naJoseph Stalin.