Tonkova Vera Leonidovna

Tonkova Vera Leonidovna

Born in 1902 in the village of Aleksandrovskoye, Pskov Governorate, in the family of a hereditary honorary citizen of the city of Pskov; secondary education; no p. In 1922 she entered the Petrograd Institute of Living Oriental Languages, but was expelled during the "purge". In 1925 she went to Tallinn to be with her brother, where she got married. In 1927 she married for the second time. In 1933 she went to Leningrad. She got a job at a medical institution. She was arrested in 1935, held on Shpalernaya, and released. In 1941 she worked in the VAMI library. She was arrested on 04.01.1941 on suspicion of espionage. She was sentenced by the military tribunal of the NKVD troops of the USSR under Article 58-6 to capital punishment with the right to appeal. The death sentence was replaced by 15 years in a correctional labor camp. Imprisoned in Western Siberia, then in Eastern Siberia. After her release, she was exiled to the village of Oktyabrsky in the Irkutsk region. She was released from exile in June 1956. Rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 02.11.1963.