Adelina Kondrátieva

Adelina Kondrátieva (née Abramson; 1917 – 14 December 2012) was an Argentine-born Russian translator and Brigadista who participated in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. For her subsequent dedication to that historical period, she was elected president of the (AGE), and in 2009 she was granted a Spanish passport.

Biography Adelina Veniaminovna Abramson was born in Buenos Aires in 1917, the daughter of Benjamin Abramson. Her family had gone into exile there in 1910, fleeing the Russian Tsarist regime, and her father worked there as a commercial delegate. After General José Félix Uriburu's coup in September 1932, Abramson was "arrested, tortured, and expelled." Adelina, along with her father, mother, and older sister Paulina, moved to Montevideo, and from there they managed to return to the Soviet Union. The "Trotskyist" label that Abramson was saddled with limited his reintegration into the new Soviet structure – Adelina had to apply three times to join the Union of Communist Youth – to the point that in January 1937, Adelina and her father left the USSR clandestinely. After a rocambolesque trip, they arrived in Spain, where Paulina was already waiting for them.

Return to the USSR In 1938, the Abramson family returned to Moscow and Adelina entered the Workers' University for adults, specializing in the "history of the American trade union movement".

Adelina Kondrátieva died in Moscow on 14 December 2012, at age 95.