Yakov Peters birthplace plate (Vormsāte)

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Yakov Khristoforovich Peters (Latvian: Jēkabs Peterss, Russian: Я́ков Христофо́рович Пе́терс, English: Jacob Peters, Jan Peters) (3 December [O.S. 21 November] 1886 — 25 April 1938) was a Latvian Communist revolutionary, Soviet politician, chekist. Together with Feliks Dzerzhinsky, he was one of the founders and chiefs of the Cheka (VChK). He was the Deputy Chairman of the Cheka from 1918 and briefly the acting Chairman of the Cheka from 7 July to 22 August 1918.
Wikipedia article: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Петерс,_Яков_Христофорович
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Coordinates:   56°32'38"N   21°56'40"E
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