Varvara Nikolajewna Jakowleva
Varwara Nikolajewna Jakowlewa ( Russian Варвара Николаевна Яковлева ; * 1884 in Moscow , Russian Empire , † September 11, 1941 in Oryol ) was a Soviet politician.
Life
Yakovleva had been a member of the Bolsheviks since 1904. After the February Revolution in 1917, she did party work in Moscow, where she also took an active part in the October uprising . In the following years, she took on a leading position in the Supreme Economic Council and was, among other things, Deputy People's Commissar for Education in the Russian Soviet Republic. In the mid-1920s she supported the Left Opposition . From 1930 to 1937 she was People's Commissar for Finance. On September 12, 1937, she was arrested in the course of the Stalinist purges and in the third Moscow show trial as a witness against Nikolai Bukharinused. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
After the attack by German troops on the Soviet Union, on September 11, 1941, many political prisoners were shot by the NKVD while evacuating the central prison of Oryol , including Christian Rakowski , Olga Kamenewa and Varvara Jakowlewa.
She was married to the astronomer and revolutionary Pawel Karlowitsch Sternberg .
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| SURNAME | Jakowlewa, Varvara Nikolajewna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Яковлева, Варвара Николаевна (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1941 |
| Place of death | Oryol |