Lauristin Benita Gansovna

Born 11/12/1904 in Revel (Estonia); Estonian; from workers; secondary education (graduated from the Industrial and Art College); member of the Communist Party of Estonia and member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1922–1936. 01/31/1924 voluntarily surrendered after illegally crossing the border from Estonia to the USSR (she was persecuted by the Estonian police for belonging to the Communist Party). Arrested and charged under Art. 98 part 1; On 02/11/1924 the case was closed by the PP OGPU LVO for lack of corpus delicti. Released, sent to the Estonian section of the Comintern in Leningrad. Before the second arrest, she lived in Leningrad (Mytninskaya embankment, 5/7, apt. 134), a retoucher at the printing house named after. Evg. Sokolova. Arrested on August 22, 1936, accused of participating in the “K/R Trotskyist-Zinoviev organization.” Sentenced on December 24, 1936 by a visiting session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR under Art. 58-8, 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 8 years in prison and 5 years of disqualification with confiscation of property. Imprisoned in the Solovetsky camp. By resolution of the Special Troika of the UNKVD of the Leningrad Region dated 10/14/1937 ,   to VMN. Shot on November 1, 1937 in the Sandormokh tract (Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). Rehabilitated by the ruling of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR dated January 4, 1958.