Though described in official records as a poor peasant with only a secondary education, it remains attested that the Salogor family had "unhealthy" social origins according to Soviet class definitions, and for this reason Nikita cut off all links with his relatives. According to his own words, he had stopped communicating with his mother in 1918, when she had remarried; in 1930, she would be caught up in the Dekulakization campaign. Salogor moved to other areas of the Ukraine in 1924, holding a variety of jobs in agricultural enterprises. He was manager of agricultural projects in Rîbnița and Ocna Roșie Districts (1933–1935) before being integrated into the political establishment of the Moldavian ASSR. Salogor moved there in 1930, as part of a wave of new arrivals which were meant to infuse the local political structures with stricter Stalinism. He was by then a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which remained his only affiliation until 1940.