List of Famous people with last name Rahja

Eino Rahja

First Name Eino

Last Name Rahja

Born on June 20, 1885

Died on April 26, 1936 (aged 50)

Born in Russia, Saint Petersburg

Eino Abramovich Rahja was a Finnish-Russian revolutionary who joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903, becoming aligned with the party's Bolshevik faction. Rahja organized Lenin's temporary escape to Finland in the summer of 1917. During the Finnish Civil War, Rahja was one of the most capable military leaders of the Reds. After the Reds lost the war, he fled to the Russian SFSR where he lived for the rest of his life and became, for example, a commander of the army corps (komkor) in the Red army.

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Jukka Rahja

First Name Jukka

Born on July 19, 1887

Died on August 31, 1920 (aged 33)

Born in Russia, Saint Petersburg

Jukka Rahja was a Russian-Finnish Bolshevik who was killed by the Petrograd Opposition.

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