[Carl-Fredrik Geust]

The killed passenger was State Security Commissar 3.class Pavel Tikhonovich Kuprin (b. 1908), head of NKVD 3rd department. According to the data base of Ilya Prokofyev the aircraft was not a Pe-8, but a SB of Glavsevmorputi (Head Administration of the Northern Sea Way) on route from Moscow to Leningrad. The aircraft crashed near Moyre on the SW shore of Lake Ladoga after attacks by German fighters. I have not found any information of the aircraft crew.