Goloshchyokin was born 9 March 1876 in Nevel to a family of Jewish contractors, his true birth name is Shaya Itsikovich Goloshchyokin .

On 19 February 1925, he was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party in the newly created Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic.

From 1925 to 1933 he ran the Kazakh ASSR with virtually no outside interference as a local dictator.

Goloshchyokin ordered that Kazakhstan's largely nomadic population was to be forced to settle in collective farms.

This caused a deadly famine in Kazakhstan known within Kazakhstan as the Goloshchekin Genocide.

Roughly 38% of all Kazakhs died, (roughly 1.5 million to 2 million people) the highest number of any ethnic group killed per capita in the Soviet famines of the early 1930s.

Filipp Goloshchyokin also played a significant role in the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918.

When he arrived in Moscow on July 3, 1918, insisting on the tsar's death.

He met with key figures like Lenin, Sverdlov,