Khazan Dora Moiseevna (1894-1961)

Khazan (Hasan) Dora Moiseevna (1894, Riga — 1961, Moscow) — Soviet state and party figure.

Dora Khazan was the wife of the Soviet партийный и государственный деятель Andrei Andreyev. A member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1912.

From 1914 to 1916 she worked as an accountant for the sickness fund at the Putilov Factory in Saint Petersburg (then Petrograd), while simultaneously carrying out underground revolutionary work in Tallinn (then Revel). In 1916 she was arrested and sentenced to lifelong exile in Siberia.

After the February Revolution she was released from the Revel prison in 1917. She became a member of the city party committee and participated in organizing units of the Red Guards.

She took part in the Russian Civil War and later held party and trade-union positions in the Urals, Ukraine, the North Caucasus, and Moscow.

After graduating from the Industrial Academy, from 1934 she headed the Main Administration of the Wool Industry of the USSR. From 1935 she served as a member of the council attached to the People’s Commissariat of Light Industry, and later became Deputy People’s Commissar of Light Industry of the USSR. She was also a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.