Leonid Yakovlevich Gaikis was a Soviet diplomat and the second Soviet ambassador to Spain, where he served during the Spanish Civil War. In May 1937, he was recalled to Moscow, arrested and soon shot as part of the Great Purge.
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The first ambassador of the Soviet Union to Mexico, Stanislav Pestkovsky (1924-1926), together with the trade representative of the Soviet Union, Leonid Gaikis. Circa 1925
Gaikis appearing as #21 on one of Stalin's execution lists, Moscow, 20 August 1937. The page is signed by the senior NKVD official Vladimir Tsesarsky.Writers born in the 1890s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1898 to 1937 · aged 39
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6 languages
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