# Semyon Firin

> Semyon Grigoryevich Firin was a Soviet officer in the intelligence services OGPU and NKVD. Later in his career, he was a leader in different Gulag forced labor camps, named by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn as one of "the main henchmen of Stalin and Yagoda, the main overseers of the Belomor, six hired killers" responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. He was executed during the Great Purge in 1937.

*Soviet secret service member (1898-1937)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Born:** 1898
- **Died:** 1937-08-14
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 44.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.1 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 5.7 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 35.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Semyon Firin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Firin)
- [اس جى فيرين](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86)
- [Semjon Grigorjewitsch Firin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semjon_Grigorjewitsch_Firin)
- [Фірін Семен Григорович](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Siemion Firin](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemion_Firin)
- [Фирин, Семён Григорьевич](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%91%D0%BD_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4484960)

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