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Nikolai Yezhov

Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture, and executions during the Great Purge, but he fell out of favor with Joseph Stalin and was arrested, subsequently admitting in a confession to a range of anti-Soviet activity includi…

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politics · NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895–1940) · politician · military personnel · also Nikolai Yezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, Nikolay Ivanovich Yezhov, Yezhov

Born 8 April 1895 · Died 4 February 1940 · Q141860

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Jun 1938Award
Won Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (1938).
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Career landmark: People's Commissar for Water Transport of the USSR (1938–1939).
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1940· 2 entries

Feb 4, 1940Documented record86% confidence

Died 1940-02-04.

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Along with others who were blamed for the Great Purge

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1938· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1938Documented record84% confidence

Won Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (1938).

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Jan 1, 1938Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: People's Commissar for Water Transport of the USSR (1938–1939).

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Yezhov had even ordered the arrest of Beria, who was party chief in Georgia

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1937· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1937Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Lenin (1937).

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“Opis: 21 grudnia 1937 podczas uroczystości dwudziestolecia „organów.”

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1936· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1936Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (1936–1938).

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1934· 1 entry

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Was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party; in the next year he became a secretary of the Central Committee

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1927· 1 entry

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Was transferred to the Accounting and Distribution Department of the Party where he worked as an instructor and acting head of the department

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1917· 1 entry

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But he later divorced her and married Yevgenia Feigenberg (Khayutina-Yezhova), a Soviet publishing worker and Chief Editor of USSR in Construction magazine who was known for her friendship with many Soviet writers and ac

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1895· 1 entry

Apr 8, 1895Documented record86% confidence

Born 1895-04-08.

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