Nuorteva
Nuorteva is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Kerttu Nuorteva (1912–1963), Soviet intelligence agent * Santeri Nuorteva (1881–1929), Finnish-born Soviet journalist {{Short pages monitor ...
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Kerttu Nuorteva
Kerttu Nuorteva (November 10, 1912 in Astoria, Oregon, Astoria, Oregon, United States – August 29, 1963 in Karaganda, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) was a Soviet intelligence agent. She was the daughter of Santeri Nuorteva, the president of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and was parachuted into Finland by the Soviet Airborne Troops in 1942. She was arrested and deported to the Soviet Union at the end of the war. Family and education Nuorteva was born in Astoria, Oregon, United States, where her father had lived since the 1910s, when he was deported from Tampere, Finland. In the Soviet Union, Santeri had a good relationship with Lenin and became the president of Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Kerttu Nuorteva was raised and went to school in Petrozavodsk and later attended university in Leningrad. She married the Finnish-born Jalmari Aho, a member of the Finnish Red Guards (Finland), Red Guards. She later married a journa ...
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