Narodnaya Volya
In summer 1882 Degayev worked in Tiflis as a rail road engineer and organized Narodnaya Volya circles among Tiflis military officers. He presented himself as a member of the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya although he was not a member at that time. In the autumn 1882 most of the Narodnaya Volya members in Tiflis were arrested and Degayev was ordered by the Narodnaya Volya leader Vera Figner to move to Odessa and organize an underground typography there. On 18 December 1883 Degayev and the whole of his group was arrested.