# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yakov-agranov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:18:58.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yakov-agranov"
name: "Yakov Agranov"
slug: "yakov-agranov"
description: "Yakov Saulovich Agranov was the first chief of the Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda. He is known as one of main organizers of Soviet political repressions and Stalinist show trials in the 1920s and 1930s. He fabricated the \"Tagantsev conspiracy\" case and the Moscow trials, including the Trial of the Twenty One and the Industrial Party Trial, as well as mass arrests and executions in Saint Petersburg during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge."
tagline: "NKVD officer (1893–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Agranow.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1893-10-12"
deathDate: "1938-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.21887466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ياكوف أغرانوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Якаў Саулавіч Агранаў"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Agranov"
    title: "Yakov Agranov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yákov Agránov"
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    title: "Jakov Agranov"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iakov_Agranov"
    title: "Iakov Agranov"
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    title: "Jakovs Agranovs"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakow_Agranow"
    title: "Jakow Agranow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump