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Russian-born educator Li Sha dies

Xinhua, May 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Li Sha, a renowned Russian educator and former member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body, died in Beijing on May 12. She was 101.

The Russian-born woman, whose former name was Elizebetta Pavlovna Kishkina, was wife of Li Lisan, a leader of China's labor movement and former minister of labor after New China was founded in 1949. Li Lisan died in 1967.

She came to China with Li Lisan in 1946 and taught Russian in colleges and universities in Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiang Province and Beijing after 1947.

She became a Chinese citizen in 1964. Endi