Dora Lazurkina was arrested and sentenced to five years of exile in 1937; her sentence was later changed to imprisonment in the Gulag and extended indefinitely.
13 Facts About Dora Lazurkina
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Dora Lazurkina worked as a propagandist and organizer, but was arrested by the police and exiled to the Arkhangelsk Governorate.
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Dora Lazurkina soon escaped from her exile, then arrived in Moscow, where she took part in a party conference, at which she was arrested and sent to Butyrka prison.
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Dora Lazurkina was charged with murder and sentenced to one year in prison.
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Dora Lazurkina was friends with Nadezhda Krupskaya, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Sergei Kirov, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and Anatoly Lunacharsky.
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Dora Lazurkina's husband was expelled from the party, then arrested, and finally executed during interrogation by the NKVD, who tried to make his death appear to be a suicide.
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Dora Lazurkina was initially sentenced to five years of exile for "participation in a counter-revolutionary organization".
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Dora Lazurkina was finally released and rehabilitated in 1955; she was later awarded the Order of Lenin in 1956, and again in 1967 on the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.
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Dora Lazurkina had a heightened sense of justice, and expressed her disagreement with conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to Leonid Brezhnev.
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Dora Lazurkina proposed limiting privileges for party workers, as a result of which she was no longer invited to party events; the 70th anniversary of her joining the party passed without any form of commemoration.
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Dora Lazurkina died on January 24,1974, in Leningrad at the age of 89, exactly 50 years after the death of Lenin, whom she revered.
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Dora Lazurkina was buried at the Theological Cemetery at the cenotaph of her husband.
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Dora Lazurkina's son Viktor Mikhailovich Lazurkin was an Arctic geologist.