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Liisa Savolainen

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31 August 1920, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Liisa Savolainen (5 August 1897, Saint Petersburg – 31 August 1920, Saint Petersburg) was a Finnish communist activist.

A daughter of the Saint Petersburg-based labourer Savolainen, she was a founder of the Finnish Communist Party in 1918. She worked with Jukka Rahja in the party's military organization.

Savolainen was one of the victims of the Kuusinen Club Incident in Saint Petersburg in 1920 when radical Finnish communists killed eight members of the Communist Party in a power struggle.

Savolainen is buried in the Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg and her name of found in grave of August Communists.

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