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Yezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich

Date of birth:
May 1st, 1895 (St. Petersburg, Russian Empire)
Date of death:
February 4th, 1940 (Moscow, Soviet Union)
Buried on:
Mass Graves Victims Communism New Cemetery Donskoye
Nationality:
Soviet

Biography

Former head of the NKVD. People's Commissar for Water Transport. Executed on Stalin's orders.

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Awarded on:
July 1937
"For outstanding successes in the leadership of the NKVD organs for the implementation of government assignments"
Orden Lenina (1936-1943)
Awarded on:
February 22nd, 1938
Jubilee Medal
Khodolmoryn gavyany ulaan tugyn odon

Sources

  • - Jansen, M., Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 (2002)