Anna Weisman

Anna Ilyinichna Weisman (, 1875–1942) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary. A paramedic and teacher by profession, she was active in the underground revolutionary movement in southern Russia and Moscow during the Czarist period. In the wake of the October Revolution she served in municipal government roles in Moscow.

Youth and entry into politics Weisman was born into a bourgeois family in Bakhmut, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, in 1875.

In the underground In 1906 Weisman fled from Maikop, where she was facing arrest, and went to Moscow.

October Revolution and Moscow municipal government After the 1917 Moscow District Duma elections, Weisman became a member of the Pyatnitsky District Administration. In early November 1917 the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee dissolved the Moscow City Duma and announced that a provisional 4-member council would govern municipal affairs of the city, with Weisman as its secretary. In the Council of District Dumas, an institution set up by the Bolsheviks to function as the city municipal government in lieu of the dissolved Moscow City Duma, Weisman was a member of its Bureau (executive organ of municipal government) and was named Head of the Fuel Department. After the Council of City Dumas was dissolved and its municipal government functions overtaken by the Moscow Soviet, Weisman served as Head of the Second Economic Department of the Moscow Soviet from April 25, 1918, to July 19, 1918, and then again from August 31, 1918, to December 3, 1918. She served as Head of the Fuel Department of the Moscow Soviet from September 12, 1918, to January 4, 1919. Weisman died in 1942.