KYASPERT Johannes Yurievich

Kyaspert Johannes Yurevich (9.5.1886, Narva - 11.11.1937), party leader. The son of working -. Employee. In 1912 joined the RSDLP, Bolshevik. Conducted Party work in Revel. In April. 1,916 arrested and deported to Kustanai. Released in Feb.. 1917. In 1917, a member of the Committee Revel RSDLP (b), directed the publication of the Bolshevik press. In 1917-18 Commissioner for printing and a member of the Executive Committee of Soviets Estland edge. On Feb.. 1918 worked in the newspaper "Pravda", the People's Commissariat of Nationalities of the RSFSR. In 1918-19 member of the Government and the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Estonian Labor Commune. In 1919-25 he served in the headquarters of the Red Army, bodies of the Cheka, GPU and OGPU. Since 1925, executive secretary Istpart CPCC Estonia, editor of "The Proletarian Revolution Estonia. From 1927 to the Party work in Leningrad. Since 1930 the Secretary of the Estonian section of the Comintern. In 1937, arrested. Sentenced to death. Shot. He was posthumously rehabilitated.