Genrikh Yagoda
Politician
1891 – 1938
Who was Genrikh Yagoda?
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda was a director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised the arrest, show trial, and execution of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, events that manifested the beginnings of the Great Purge.
Like many Soviet secret policemen of the 1930s, Yagoda himself was ultimately a victim of the Purge. He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936, and arrested in 1937. Charged with the crimes of wrecking, espionage, Trotskyism, and conspiracy, Yagoda was a defendant at the Trial of the Twenty-One, the last of the major Soviet show trials of the 1930s. Following his confession at the trial, Yagoda was found guilty and shot.
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- Born
- Nov 7, 1891
Rybinsk - Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Russia
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 15, 1938
Moscow
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on July 23, 2013
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