Hugo Erikovich Yalava (3 February 1874 in Saint Petersburg – 28 April 1950 in Petrozavodsk) was a train driver and carried out administrative tasks in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). He is known for his role in the Russian Revolution, when he helped Lenin flee Finnland in July of 1917 and then return to Saint Petersburg shortly before the October Revolution.
Life
editFamily and Occupation
editHugo Erikovich Yalava was born on the 3. of February 1874 in Saint Petersburg. Not much is known about his childhood as many records were lost during the second world war, as well as the Russian and Finnish civil wars.
In 1889, Jalawa worked as a lathe operator in a factory, from which he was dismissed for being "unreliable." He got a position at the depot of the Finland Station in Saint Petersburg as a boiler cleaner in 1898 and later became a fireman. He became an assistant train driver in 1901 and then a train driver in 1904.
He married the worker Lydia Germanovna Jalava (1886-1975) in 1903. Together, they adopted three orphaned girls. [1]
Political and revolutionary work
editHugo Jalava actively participated in the work of the railway union and vigorously defended the interests of the workers in the years of the first Russian revolution (1905-1907). Jalava was chairman of the railway committee in the fall of 1905 during the political general strike in October. He repeatedly transported party members, money, weapons and illegal literature across the Finnish border. Starting 1907, "conspiratory" party actions were organised in his appartment. [2]
Jalava was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland between 1906 and 1917.
References
edit- ^ Markova E. I. (2014), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (ed.), History of russian Children's Literature in Karelia, Petrozavodsk, p. 201
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ VokrugSveta Article at vokrugsveta.ru. Retreived on 17. June 2024 (Russian)