Global InformationDora Lazurkina information
Dora Lazurkina | |
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| Born | Dora Abramovna Lazurkina 25 April 1884 Novozybkov, Russian Empire |
| Died | 24 January 1974 (aged 89) Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
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| Awards | Order of Lenin |
Dora Abramovna Lazurkina was a Russian revolutionary who was active in the October Revolution. Between 1918 and 1922 she acted as the director of the preschool division of the People's Commissariat for Education, underneath Anatoly Lunacharsky. From 1922 to 1932 she was active in the Leningrad Regional Committee under the leadership of Sergei Kirov, and from 1932 to 1934 she was deputy secretary of the Leningrad Party Control Commission.[1]
She was arrested and sentenced to five years of exile in 1937; her sentence was later changed to imprisonment in the Gulag and extended indefinitely. She was released in 1955 and subsequently rehabilitated.
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