Vera Klementievna Slutskaya

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Vera Klementjewna Sluzkaja (actually Berta Bronislawowna ; born September 17, 1874 in Minsk , † November 12, 1917 near Pavlovsk ) was a Russian revolutionary.

Life

Wera Sluzkaja 1902 member of the RSDLP . She took part in the revolution of 1905 in Moscow and in 1907 was a delegate of the social democratic organization of Bryansk at the fifth party congress in London. In 1909 she emigrated and returned in 1912. In 1913 she did party work in Petersburg.

After the February Revolution of 1917 , Slutskaya was a member of the Petersburg Party Committee. She organized the revolutionary women and worked in the Vasilyevsky Island district. In the course of the suppression of the counterrevolutionary Kerensky - Krasnov mutiny, she organized the supply of the Red Guards with food and medicine.

On November 12, 1917, the car in which Slutskaya was located was hit by an enemy artillery shell not far from Pavlovsk . The city was named Slutsk in her honor from 1918 to 1944 .

source

  • Lexicon of the Great October Socialist Revolution , Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig