Semyon Firin

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Soviet secret service member (1898-1937)

PoliticiansLived 1898 to 1937 · aged 39

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Semyon Grigoryevich Firin was a Soviet officer in the intelligence services OGPU and NKVD.

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Order of Vasily Ulrich on the immediate execution of 12 people convicted by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. Firin is number 10

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Order of the Red Banner

Order of Lenin

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About this person

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.