Edvard Otto Vilhelm Gylling (30 November 1881 – 14 June 1938)[1] was a prominent Social Democratic and later Communist politician in Finland, later leader of the Karelian Labor Commune and Karelian ASSR.

On 1 March 1918, a Treaty between the socialist governments of Russia and Finland was signed in St Petersburg.

The Treaty was signed by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin from the Russian side and by Council of Peoples Representatives of Finland Edvard Gylling and Oskari Tokoi.

[3] After the Reds lost the war, Gylling fled to Sweden,[2] but later moved to the Soviet Union.

He was accused of nationalism, removed in 1935 and arrested in 1937 as a part of the Finnish Operation of the NKVD.