Melanie Rauk
Melanie Rauk (July 25, 1905 – January 25, 1978) was an Estonian teacher and translator. Family and education Melanie Rauk's father, Ivan (Juhan, Johan) Rauk (1880–?), was a municipal clerk, and he fled to Canada in 1906 after participating in the Russian Revolution of 1905. Melanie Rauk emigrated to Canada with her mother, Leena (or Jelena) Rauk (née Kuut 1871–1955) to join him in 1911. She graduated from high school in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, in 1923. In 1924, she traveled with her family to Riga, and from there to Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Transcaucasia. In 1924 she settled in the Estonian commune of Koit (commune), Koit in the Caucasus. From 1924 to 1930, she studied foreign languages at the Estonian Pedagogical Technical College in Leningrad, from 1930 to 1936 at the Herzen University, Pokrovsky Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad, and from 1936 to 1938 at the Herzen University, Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad. She was mar ...
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Pärsama
Pärsama is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Leisi Parish. References

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