Ekaterina Kalinina | |
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Born | Jekaterina Lorberg 2 July 1882 |
Died | 22 December 1960 | (aged 78)
Occupation | Civil servant |
Known for | Wife of Mikhail Kalinin |
Ekaterina Kalinina (Russian: Екатерина Ивановна Калинина; née Lorberg; 2 July 1882 – 22 December 1960) was the wife of Soviet politician Mikhail Kalinin, the chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and formally the head of state from 1938 to 1946. She was in a labor camp between 1938 and 1946[1] which is called the period of the Great Purge perpetrated by the Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin.[2]