Kantor Abram Yulyevich (1901 — exact date and place of birth, as well as date and place of death, unknown) — revolutionary activist in Kostroma from 1917, political worker.

Abram Kantor took part in the struggle against the Cadet, SR, and Menshevik organisations. Acting on behalf of the Kostroma Party organisation, he helped establish the Komsomol and set up a stage-two commune school.

In 1919, he volunteered for the Red Army, serving until 1922. A member of the CPSU from 1921, he worked as a political officer at the Army Club of the Spassky Barracks and later in the troops of the Khodynka Garrison in Moscow.

From 1923 to 1930, he served as a political officer in border units (Kronstadt, Petrozavodsk, Sestroretsk). From 1930 to 1932, he studied at the Higher Border School courses. Between 1932 and 1935, he taught in border schools in Moscow and Kharkov.

From 1936 to 1941, he was deputy political officer and commandant of the dormitory of Intelligence Department No. 1 in Sverdlovsk.

During the Second World War (1941–1945), he served as commissar of an army and front-line hospital. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, the medal For Victory over Germany, and various jubilee medals.

From 1945, Abram Kantor lived in Riga, working as a teacher and school principal. He was repeatedly elected secretary of primary Party organisations and served on the local trade union committee.

He took an active part in cultural life and for many years was accompanist and soloist in an amateur orchestra of folk instruments at the House of Culture of the Latvian Republican Council of Trade Unions.

In 1970, he was awarded the medal For Valiant Labour. Recognised as a personal pensioner of republican significance.