Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Ежо́в, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret...

out mass executions, and oversaw the execution of Genrikh Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov, who headed the NKVD during the purge years. Scholars estimate the death...

the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. It was led by Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. The NKVD undertook mass extrajudicial executions...

Purge. He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936 and arrested in 1937. Charged with crimes of wrecking, espionage...

and made to watch their teenage son being tortured. In December 1936, Nikolai Yezhov the newly appointed People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (NKVD),...

geneticist Nikolai Volkoff (1947–2018), professional WWF wrestler Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge Nikolai Zherdev...

secret police official who served as a deputy head of the NKVD under Nikolai Yezhov during the Great Purge. Frinovsky was a revolutionary during the Russian...

operation was implemented according to NKVD Order No. 00485 signed by Nikolai Yezhov. The majority of the shooting victims were ethnically Polish, but not...

Weynschtok By the end of 1937 the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov, in his order #00362 had changed the number of departments from five...

Several prominent figures (such as Andrei Bubnov, Alexander Beloborodov, Nikolai Yezhov) were sentenced to death during the Stalin era outside these trials...

chief procurator of the Soviet Union, wrote a memorandum to NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov in 1938, during the Great Purge, which stated: Among the prisoners there...

the corresponding order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov. The operations of this type in this period targeted "foreign" ethnicities...

during the Great Purge (1936–1938), he was arrested after the fall of Nikolai Yezhov in 1939, and later shot without trial by the NKVD in 1941. He was posthumously...

interrogation and torture were directly supervised by NKVD Chief Nikolai Yezhov. Stalin instructed Yezhov, "See for yourself, but Tukhachevsky should be forced to...

was not an ally of Nikolai Yezhov but some collaborative government business was to be expected due to the membership of Nikolai Yezhov in the Secretariat...

харбинцах, ("Харбинский приказ") by September 20, 1937, undersigned by Nikolai Yezhov regulated arrest and prosecution of former Russian personnel (Harbin...

Yagoda dismissed from his post as head of the NKVD, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov) October 3 Platon Volkov November 23 Boris Pinson December 28 Nestor...

State Security" Genrikh Yagoda (July 10, 1934 – September 26, 1936) Nikolai Yezhov (September 26, 1936 – November 25, 1938) Lavrentiy Beria (November 1938...

NKVD Order № 00439, signed by Nikolai Yezhov on July 25, 1937, was the basis for the German operation of the NKVD in 1937–1938. The operation was the first...

Bulanov knew Nikolai Yezhov well, with whom he had friendly relations, and remained the secretary of the NKVD for a time after Nikolai Yezhov became head...

Affairs (NKVD) Ministers Genrikh Yagoda Nikolai Yezhov Lavrentiy Beria Sergei Kruglov NKVD Collegium Nikolai Yezhov Mikhail Frinovsky Lev Belsky Leonid Zakovsky...

was issued by the Central Committee Politburo (VKP b), and signed by Nikolai Yezhov, the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs. The operation was at the...

secret police: Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria. The books are based on recent publication by Russian...

retouching photos to remove individuals such as Leon Trotsky, Nikolay Yezhov, and even Stalin. After Stalin ordered the murder of Grigory Kulik's wife...

former kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements') was signed by Nikolai Yezhov and approved by the Politburo during the Great Purge. To execute this...

bribery and speculation. The People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, Nikolai Yezhov, established the OBKhSS as a department of the Main Police Department...

purges was a Commissar called Nikolai Yezhov, a fervent Stalinist and a believer in violent repression. Nikolai Yezhov continued to expand the lists of...

prisoners, both common and high-ranking—including notorious figures such as Nikolai Yezhov, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Pavel Alexandrovich Alexandrov etc. – were unceremoniously...

kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements") undersigned by Nikolai Yezhov. By this order, troikas were created on the levels of republic, krai...

of the NKVD. During the Great Purge, when the new head of the NKVD Nikolai Yezhov was systematically removing officers associated with his predecessor...