 Jānis Rudzutaks

Jānis Rudzutaks (; 15 August (3 August old style) 1887 – 29 July 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician.Rudzutaks was born in the Kuldīga district of the Courland Governorate (present-day Kursīši parish, Saldus municipality, Latvia), the son of a farmhand.He started work as a swineherd after two years at parish school, but in 1903, at the age of 16, ran away to Riga, where he worked in a factory.