Kovach (Astafieva) Maria Vasilievna

Genus. in 1910 in St. Petersburg; Russian; higher education. Since 1916 she lived with her family in Harbin, a Chinese citizen. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Harbin Polytechnic Institute, lawyer-economist. In 1927 in Harbin she married Hungarian Karl (N.A.) Kovacs, a citizen of the USSR. In 1932 she came to the USSR with her husband, and from December 1932 she lived in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. She was arrested in April 1933, three days after her husband's arrest. By resolution of the OGPU Collegium dated May 28, 1933, she was sentenced under Art. 58-4-6 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to execution with replacement by 10 years of labor camp. Imprisoned in the Solovetsky camp; was at the Anzer camp with her husband, with whom she was officially allowed to live together. Worked as a manager. first aid station; gave birth in the camp to a daughter, Enta (Elena) (07/24/1934) and a son, Nikolai (04/20/1936). After separating from her husband in 1937, she went on a death hunger strike. By a resolution of the Special Troika of the UNKVD LO dated 10/14/1937, she was sentenced to VMN. Shot on November 1, 1937 in the Sandormokh tract (Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). (Her husband N.A. Kovach, a Hungarian political emigrant, was transported from Solovki to Kolyma, shot on August 16, 1938, the children were sent to orphanages). Rehabilitated.