Background
NYUSTREM, Ragnar was born on September 20, 1898 in Helsinki. Son of a tinsmith.
Finnish writer and stage director
NYUSTREM, Ragnar was born on September 20, 1898 in Helsinki. Son of a tinsmith.
1932 graduate Leningrad Theater Studio.
Worked as turner, ship’s stoker. 1914 joined Finnish Social-Democratic Party. 1917-1918 director, workers’ theater.
1918 sentenced to 12 years’ penal servitude, escaped. From 1921 lived in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. From 1932 stage director, Petrozavodsk Karelian Drama Theater.
Early 1920's first work printed. 1937 arrested by State Security organs.
Communist Party member from 1927.