Sergey Petrovich Pesteryev | |
Birth Date: | 12 January 1888 |
Birth Place: | Kharkov, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) |
Sergey Petrovich Pesteryev (Russian: Сергей Петрович Пестерев; 12 January 1888 - 2 May 1942) was a Russian Empire cyclist.[1] He competed in two events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[2] He was arrested by Soviet authorities and sentenced to five years in a labor camp in April 1940; he died in prison two years later.[3] Pesteryev was posthumously rehabilitated in 1999.