Genrikh Yagoda

Soviet secret police official (1891-1938) · Politicians · Died at 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.

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1938Died15 March 19381933Honoured Worker of the Workers‘ and Peasants’ MilitiaAwardOrder of LeninAward1932Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)AwardOrder of the Red Banner of LabourAwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour of the Russian SFSRAward1927Order of the Red BannerAward1922Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (V)Award1891Born7 November 1891

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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

Order of Lenin1933

Honoured Worker of the Workers‘ and Peasants’ Militia1933

Order of the Red Banner of Labour1932

Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Russian SFSR1932

Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)1932

Order of the Red Banner1927

Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (V)1922

In their orbit

Spouse: Ida Averbakh

In common with Genrikh

Felix DzerzhinskyBoth received Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (V)

Nikolai YezhovBoth received Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)

Vasily BlyukherBoth received Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (V)

Viktor AbakumovBoth received Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)

Vsevolod BalitskyBoth received Honoured Worker of the Workers‘ and Peasants’ Militia

Politicians born in the 1890s 1

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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.