Augustus Osen ( Norwegian Augusta Aasen , May 19, 1878 , Namsos - August 4, 1920 , Moscow ) is a figure in the Norwegian and international labor and communist movement.
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Biography
Born in the city of Namsuse on the coast of the Norwegian Sea .
She graduated from the pedagogical seminary in Levanger .
In the years 1908-11, a member of the city government of Trondheim .
In the years 1912-14 secretary of the Norwegian Social Democratic Youth Union.
One of the organizers in Scandinavia of the movement of solidarity with Soviet Russia.
Participant of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern and the 1st International Conference of Women Communists in Moscow.
On August 2, 1920, during an aviation festival at the Khodynka field in Moscow, she was shot down when she was boarding an airplane with a wing of an aircraft that had crashed. Two days later she passed away.
Buried at the Kremlin wall .
Literature
- Moscow. Encyclopedia / Chapters. ed. A. L. Narochnitsky . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1980. - 688 p., Il.
- Abramov Alexey. At the Kremlin wall. - M .: Politizdat, 1988. - ISBN 5-250-00071-1 .