Genrikh Yagoda

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Soviet secret police official (1891-1938)

PoliticiansLived 1891 to 1938 · aged 46

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He directed Stalin's secret police during the Great Purge, organizing the show trials that destroyed the Old Bolsheviks, then became a defendant in his own show trial and was shot.

Politicians Politician Politics 20th Century

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1912 genrich jagoda kartei orchrana

Genrikh Yagoda mugshot 1912-1 (cropped)

Genrikh Yagoda mugshot 1912-1

Genrikh Yagoda mugshot 1912-2

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1922 exit visa hand signed by Genrikh Yagoda.

Genrikh Yagoda and Ida Averbakh 1922 (cropped)

Awards 7

1933Order of Lenin

1933Honoured Worker of the Workers‘ and Peasants’ Militia

1932Order of the Red Banner of Labour

1932Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Russian SFSR

1932Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)

1927Order of the Red Banner

1922Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (V)

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SpouseIda Averbakh

Connected to Genrikh 6

Felix DzerzhinskyAlso won Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (V)

Nikolai YezhovAlso won Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)

Vasily BlyukherAlso won Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (V)

Viktor AbakumovAlso won Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)

Vsevolod BalitskyAlso won Honoured Worker of the Workers‘ and Peasants’ Militia

Djelal ed-Din KorkmasovAlso won Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Russian SFSR

About this person

Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda headed the NKVD from 1934 to 1936, the years when Stalin's terror machine began consuming the revolution's founding generation. He supervised the arrests and executions of Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic moments of the Great Purge, and oversaw construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal using gulag labor that killed between 12,000 and 25,000 people. In 1936 Stalin replaced him with Nikolai Yezhov. A year later Yagoda was arrested, charged with wrecking, espionage, Trotskyism and conspiracy, and made a defendant at the Trial of the Twenty-One, the last major show trial of the 1930s. He confessed, was found guilty, and on March 15, 1938, was shot.