Nikolai Yezhov

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Nikolai Yezhov was a high-ranking Soviet secret police chief who oversaw the most brutal phase of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself falling victim to the terror.

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Yezhov 1
Николай Иванович Ежов 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician
human
perpetrator of political repression
secret police chief
allegiance Soviet Union
burialPlace unmarked grave in Moscow
causeOfDeath execution by shooting
convictedOf counter-revolutionary activities
treason
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1895-05-01
dateOfDeath 1940-02-04
employer Communist Party of the Soviet Union
NKVD
endTime 1938-11-25
era Stalin era
ethnicGroup Russian
familyName Nikolai Yezhov self-linksurface differs
surface form: Yezhov
givenName Nikolay
surface form: Nikolai
hasAlias Yezhovshchina namesake
hasImageDepicting photograph with Stalin later doctored to remove him
ideology Marxism–Leninism
Stalin era
surface form: Stalinism
languageSpoken Russian
mannerOfDeath execution
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
nativeName Nikolai Yezhov self-linksurface differs
surface form: Николай Иванович Ежов
notableEvent Great Purge
Yezhovshchina
notableFor oversight of mass arrests and executions during 1937–1938
notableWork implementation of the Great Purge
officeEndForNKVDChief 1938-11-25
officeStartForNKVDChief 1936-09-26
participantIn political repression in the Soviet Union
placeOfBirth Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg Governorate
placeOfDeath Moscow
Soviet Union
positionHeld People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR
People's Commissar for State Security of the USSR
candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
head of the NKVD
replaced Genrikh Yagoda
replacedBy Lavrentiy Beria
sexOrGender male
startTime 1936-09-26
wasVictimOf Great Purge
workedUnder Joseph Stalin
workLocation Moscow

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Nikolai Yezhov familyName Nikolai Yezhov self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Yezhov
Great Purge keyFigure Nikolai Yezhov
Yezhovshchina mainPerpetrator Nikolai Yezhov
Yezhovshchina namedAfter Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Yezhov nativeName Nikolai Yezhov self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Николай Иванович Ежов
NKVD notableLeader Nikolai Yezhov