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Genrikh Yagoda
(1891–1938)
Politician
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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Genrikh Yagoda was a politician from Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Quick Facts About Genrikh Yagoda
- Born
- November 7, 1891
- Died
- March 15, 1938
- Nationality
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Profession
- Politician
- Spouse
- Ida Averbakh
About Genrikh Yagoda
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. Yagoda also supervised the construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with Naftaly Frenkel, using penal labor from the gulag system, during which 12,000–25,000 laborers died.
Biography source: Wikipedia
Awards & Honors
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner
Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Russian SFSR
Honoured Worker of the Workers‘ and Peasants’ Militia
Honorary Worker of the VChK–GPU (XV)
Honorary Worker of the VChK–GPU (V)
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