Burnshtein Abram Yevseyevich (1907-1941)
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| Surname | Burnshtein |
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| Name | Abram |
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| Patronym | Yevseyevich |
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| Birth year | 1907 |
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| Death year | 1941 |
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| Death month | 7 |
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| Death day | 22 |
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| Death place | Moscow |
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| Sex | M |
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Burnshtein (Burnstein) Abram Yevseyevich (1907 – 22 July 1941, Moscow) — Permanent Representative of the Latvian SSR to the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR.
During the period of the First Latvian Republic, Abram Burnshtein was actively involved in revolutionary activities as a member of the Komsomol and the Communist Party. From 1934 to 1936, he was repeatedly arrested.
After the establishment of Soviet power in Latvia in 1940, Burnshtein was appointed head of a trade and industrial enterprise, and subsequently became the Latvian SSR’s Permanent Representative to the Council of People’s Commissars in Moscow. He was killed on 22 July 1941 during the bombing of Moscow when a bomb hit the building housing the Permanent Representation.