Jaakko Mäki
Finnish politician
Jaakko Mäki (Russian: Яакко Туомасович Мя́ки, romanized: Yaakko Tuomasovych Myáky; 2 January 1878 – 14 January 1938) was a Finnish coppersmith, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Vaasa Province South between August 1908 and September 1918. Mäki went to Soviet Russia during the Finnish Civil War and was executed there in January 1938 during Stalin's Great Purge.
Early life
Mäki was born on 2 January 1878 in Kokkola in Ilmajoki municipality in western Grand Duchy of Finland. He was the son of a farmer and attended public school for a couple of years as well as vocational evening class. Mäki moved to Helsinki where he worked as a labourer on construction sites and joined the copper-tin-roofing trade union. He was later an apprentice coppersmith at M. F. Hätinen's workshop in Helsinki and received a diploma in the vocation in 1900. He also received a degree from the Central School of the Arts.
Mäki worked as a coppersmith in Helsinki and Ilmajoki. He became involved in the protests against the policies of Russian Governor Nikolay Bobrikov.
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