Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Николай Иванович Ежов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police...

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...

War II. The head of the NKVD was Genrikh Yagoda from 1934 to 1936, Nikolai Yezhov from 1936 to 1938, Lavrentiy Beria from 1938 to 1946, and Sergei Kruglov...

sed'moy god) and the Yezhovshchina (Ежовщина [(j)ɪˈʐofɕːɪnə], lit. 'period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate...

the end of the Stalinist Great Purge carried out by previous chief Nikolai Yezhov, whom Beria purged. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Beria...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

personnel. He played an active role in purging NKVD protégés of Nikolay Yezhov. On February 28, 1939, Kruglov became Deputy Commissar for Personnel of...

after the mass arrests of NKVD officers ordered by Nikolai Yezhov. In December 1938, after Yezhov had been dismissed and replaced by Lavrenty Beria, Rodos...

Orlov Sergei Shpigelglas Nikolai Yezhov Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov, Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, Hoover Institution...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Nikolai Yezhov, the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (NKVD), and checked into a hotel room with her, unaware that the room was bugged. Yezhov heard...

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...

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...

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

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

Yagoda's successor, Nikolai Yezhov. He was appointed head of the NKVD in East Siberia. This may have been connected with Yezhov's suspicion that the former...

Committee of the USSR and comrade. Yenukidze". The report was delivered by Nikolai Yezhov. In the report, Avel Yenukidze was accused of failing to exercise sufficient...

have resisted, whereupon Stalin entrusted Nikolai Yezhov with the job instead. In 1935, he was ordered by Yezhov to track down and liquidate "an undiscovered...