Aino Forsten

Aino Forsten
Aino Forsten during the 1910s
Member of Finnish Parliament
In office
4 April 1917 – 16 May 1918
Constituency Turku Province North
Personal details
Born(1885-04-02)2 April 1885
Maaria, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died27 November 1937(1937-11-27) (aged 52)
Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR, USSR
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Occupationpolitician, educator

Aina "Aino" Aleksandra Forsten, née Rainio (2 April 1885 – 27 November 1937), was a Finnish politician and educator. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland for the Social Democratic Party from 1916 to 1918.[1] After the 1918 Finnish Civil War, Forsten fled to the Soviet Union where she was executed during the Great Purge in 1937.

  1. ^ "Aino Forsten" (in Finnish). Parliament of Finland. Retrieved 21 June 2016.