Olga Shatunovskaya

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Olga Grigoryevna Shatunovskaya (Russian: Шатуновская Ольга Григорьевна; 1901, Baku - 1991) was a Soviet revolutionary and humans rights activist.

Shatunovskaya was born in a Jewish family in 1901. She became a Communist party member when she was 16. She worked at the party's Baku organization since 1919. During the 1930-50s she was a prisoner of Stalinist regime, then she became a member of the Soviet Commission of Party Control, and head of a special commission on rehabilitation. She was the chief-investigator of the Kirov murder.

Shatunovskaya was honored with the highest Soviet medals.