Liisa Savolainen
Liisa Savolainen was a Finnish communist activist.
A daughter of the Saint Petersburg-based labourer Savolainen, she was a founder of the Finnish Communist Party in 1918. She worked with Jukka Rahja in the party's military organization.
Savolainen was one of the victims of the Kuusinen Club Incident in Saint Petersburg in 1920 when radical Finnish communists killed eight members of the Communist Party in a power struggle.
Savolainen is buried at the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution on the Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg and her name is found on the grave of the August Communards.
