Ilya Trainin

Ilya Pavlovich Trainin (26 December 1886, Riga – 27 June 1949, Moscow) was a Soviet lawyer and prominent jurist.

[1] He began to attend a Marxist circle in Tiiga and joined the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP in 1904.

He was subsequently arrested and though he escaped once he was recaptured and imprisoned for seven months in Riga.

Officially exiled to Siberia, he illegally made his way to Poland and then on to Geneva, Switzerland.

Here he remained, studying social sciences and participating in the revolutionary movement.