Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Yezhov | |
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| File:Ezhov.PNG Yezhov in uniform | |
| People's Commissar for Water Transport | |
| In office 6 April 1938 – 9 April 1939 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolay Pakhomov |
| Succeeded by | None (position abolished) |
| People's Commissar for Internal Affairs | |
| In office 26 September 1936 – 25 November 1938[1] | |
| Preceded by | Genrikh Yagoda |
| Succeeded by | Lavrentiy Beria |
| People's Commissar for State Security[source?] | |
| In office 27 January 1937 – 25 November 1938 | |
| Candidate member of the 17th Politburo | |
| In office 12 October 1937 – 3 March 1939 | |
| Member of the 17th Secretariat | |
| In office 1 February 1935 – 3 March 1939 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov May 1, 1895 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 4, 1940 (aged 44) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Antonia Titova (1919-1930) Yevgenia Feigenberg (1930-1938; her death; 1 child) |
| Children | Natalia Nikolaevna Yezhova, later Natalia Khayutina (adopted) |
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| Nickname(s) | Russian: Ежевика (Blackberry)[2] Iron Hedgehog[3] |
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (May 1, 1895 – February 4, 1940) was the leader of the Soviet secret police called NKVD. He worked for Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1938, during the Great Purge.
References
- ↑ Ministers of Internal Affairs. Ministry of the Russian Federation. accessed 17 July 2017
- ↑ Sebag-Montefiore, Simon Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, chapter 21.
- ↑ Service (2009), chapter 11.
