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1906 Helsinki bank robbery was an armed robbery on 26 February 1906 in
History of Tampere. (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 December 2013. He later fled with it to theMurhenäytelmä Tampereella
University of Tampere. (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 December 2013.
1906 Helsinki bank robbery was an armed robbery on 26 February 1906 in Helsinki
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, Grand Duchy of Finland
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. A branch of Russian State Bank was robbed by members of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
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revolutionary activities in Russia
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The robbery was organized by Russian revolutionary Nikolay Burenin and executed by a gang of 15 Latvian revolutionaries who killed a guard and escaped with 170,743 rubles
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(equivalent to around US$1.7 million in 2013). Burenin was a concert pianist who was playing in Tampere
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on the same evening. On their way to meet him, three gang members were captured in the village of Kerava after one Russian gendarme
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was shot dead. The gang leader Jānis Čoke
Jānis Čoke (24 September 1878 in Idus parish (now Valmiera Municipality), Kreis Wolmar, Governorate of Livonia – 9 June 1910 in Turku, Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Latvian revolutionary who is known for his involvement in the 1906 robbery ...
and three other robbers were able to reach Tampere where they handed the money over to Burenin.Monimurhaaja Tshokke tappoi poliiseja Tampereen raatihuoneellaHistory of Tampere. (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 December 2013. He later fled with it to the
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on Maxim Gorki
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's fund raising trip as his personal secretary.
Jānis Čoke was captured three days later in Tampere. He managed to kill three people including one policeman before he was arrested. Čoke was sentenced to three life sentences plus 19 years. He died of pneumonia
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in June 1910.University of Tampere. (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 December 2013.
See also
*1907 Tiflis bank robbery
The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, also known as the Erivansky Square expropriation, was an armed robbery on 26 June 1907 in the city of Tiflis in the Tiflis Governorate in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire (now Georgia's capital, Tbili ...
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