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Lavrentiy Kogtev

Lavrentiy Kogtev
Lavrentiy Kogtev
Martyr

Martyr Lavrenty was born in 1880 in the village of Zabelino, Kasimov district, Ryazan province. He was married and had a son. He engaged in grain trading, but after being dekulakized, he became an engineer at the port of Zabelino. In 1933, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment for counter-revolutionary activities. In September 1937, he was arrested on suspicion of participating in a rebel-terrorist group. On December 6, 1937, he was sentenced to death by shooting by the Troika of the NKVD of the USSR in the Ryazan region.

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