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Death Dates Of Victims Of The Great Purge
''Note: Except where otherwise stated, the date is that on which the individual was executed by shooting.'' 1936 July 9 Aghasi Khanjian (murdered by Lavrentiy Beria) August 22 Mikhail Tomsky (suicide) 25 Grigori Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Grigori Yevdokimov, Ivan Bakayev, Sergei Mrachkovsky, Ivan Smirnov, Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan. September 25 ''(Genrikh 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 Lakoba (suspected poisoning) 1937 January 10 Martemyan Ryutin, Ivar Smilga, Pyotr Zalutsky. February 1 Georgy Pyatakov, Mikhail Boguslavsky, Yakov Drobnis, Nikolai Muralov, Leonid Serebryakov. 18 Sergo Ordzhonikidze (suicide) March 8 Izrail Agol 13 Nikolai Glebov-Avilov 21 Levan Gogoberidze 22 Andrei Kolegayev May 26 Vladimir Nevsky, Alexander Slepkov, Vladimir Smirnov 31 Yan Gamarnik (suici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aghasi Khanjian
Aghasi Ghevondi Khanjian ( hy, Աղասի Ղևոնդի Խանջյան; russian: Агаси Гевондович Ханджян, ''Agasi Gevondovich Khandzhyan'') (January 30, 1901 – July 9, 1936) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from May 1930 to July 1936. Biography Khanjian was born in the city of Van, Ottoman Empire (today eastern Turkey). With the onslaught of the Armenian genocide, his family emigrated from the city in 1915 and settled in Russian Armenia, where they took refuge at Etchmiadzin Cathedral. Khanjian enrolled at the Gevorgian Seminary, but gradually became attracted by revolutionary Marxist politics. In 1917–19, he was one of the organizers of Spartak, the Marxist students' union of Armenia. He later served as the secretary of the Armenian Bolshevik underground committee. In September 1919, Khanjian was elected to the Transcaucasian regional committee of Komsomol. He enrolled in Sverdlov University in 1921. After graduating, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Boguslavsky
Mikhail Solomonovich Boguslavsky (Russia: Михаил Соломонович Богуславский) (1 May 1886 – 1 February 1937) was Russian revolutionary and politician, who was tried and executed as a former supporter of Leon Trotsky. Biography The son of a poor Jewish tailor from a village in Poltava province, Ukraine, he left school at the age of 12 to work in a printing house in Kiev, and then Kharkiv. He was arrested for the first time in 1904, in Kharkov, for organising a printers' union. In 1905 he joined the Jewish Socialist Party. Repeatedly arrested. He conducted party work in Kharkov, Nikolaev and Kremenchuk. He joined the Bolsheviks in March 1917, after the February Revolution, and was one of the leading figures in bringing communist rule to Ukraine he joined the RSDLP (b) after the October Revolution, as secretary of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian soviets, and a member of the board People's Commissariat of Finance, and as a leader of red Guard det ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Uglanov
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov (russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Угла́нов; December 5, 1886 – May 31, 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik politician and Soviet statesman who played an important role in the government of the Soviet Union as a Communist Party leader in the city of Moscow during the 1920s. Uglanov was closely associated with the so-called "Right Deviation" associated with Soviet party leader Nikolai Bukharin and he fell from his leadership position during the mass collectivization campaign of 1929. Uglanov was arrested in the summer of 1936 and was executed the following spring during the secret police terror of 1937–38. Biography Early years Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov was born 5 December 1886 to an ethnic Russian peasant family in the village of Feodoritskoye in Yaroslavl Governorate, located approximately 250 kilometers (160 mi) northeast of Moscow. His father Aleksander Uglanov supplemented the family income by working se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yan Gamarnik
Yan Gamarnik (birth name Jakov Tzudikovich Gamarnik (russian: Я́ков Цу́дикович Гама́рник), sometimes known as Yakov Gamarnik (russian: Я́ков Гама́рник; – 31 May 1937), was the Chief of the Political Department of the Red Army from 1930—1937, Deputy Commissar of Defense 1930—1934 and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia 1928—1930. Biography Gamarnik was born in Zhytomyr in a Jewish family as Jakov Tzudikovich Gamarnik. He attended the St Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute and the Law School of Kyiv University. In 1917 he became a member and the secretary of the Kyiv Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper .... From 1921 to 1923 Gamarnik was a chairma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Smirnov (politician)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov (russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Смирно́в; 7 May 1887 – 26 May 1937) was a Russian Communist revolutionary, member of the Bolshevik Party (from 1907) and Soviet statesman, where he advocated a militant and doctrinally pure line. He was a persistent critic of successive party leaders, including Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, for which he spent years in prison and exile before being executed. Early life and career Smirnov was born in Moscow into a middle class family, and educated at a Moscow gymnasium. He was drawn into revolutionary politics during the 1905 revolution, and joined the Bolsheviks in 1907, as a law student at Moscow University. In 1909, he met Nikolai Bukharin, who was the Bolsheviks' student organiser in Moscow. Bukharin, Smirnov and Valerian Osinsky, who were all economists, were "identified as a trio and leaders of theoretical 'raids'" in which they took on rival Marxist groups. Smirnov rebuilt he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Slepkov
Alexander Nikolaevich Slepkov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Слепков; 20 August 1899 – 26 May 1937) was a Soviet journalist and Communist Party functionary, executed for his opposition to the forced collectivization of agriculture. Early career Alexander Slepkov was born in Ryazan province, in Russia, one of six children. His father, Nikolai, was a peasant's son, who completed high school and became a teacher, and later a beekeeper. In his teens, he may have been a supporter of the Kadets, a liberal pro-monarchist party, before he, and his father, joined the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in the town of Ludza, in Latvia, where Nikolai was elected the town's first Commissar for Education, and Alexander was elected the first Commissar for Justice. When the German army occupied Latvia, both were arrested and sentenced to death, but they were released by local population when the Germans withdrew. Alexander Slepkov graduated from Sverdlov Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Nevsky
Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Не́вский; 14 May Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._2_May.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/> O.S._2_May">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._2_May1876,_Rostov_on_Don.html" ;"title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 2 May">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 2 May1876, Rostov on Don">Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 2 May">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 2 May1876, Rostov on Don – 26 May 1937, Moscow) was a Russian people, Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik functionary, Soviet Union, Soviet statesman, professor and historian. Early career Nevsky was born Feodosii Ivanovich Krivobokov to a wealthy family of Old Believers in Rostov-on-Don. His father was a merchant, and his grandparents were Cossacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Kolegayev
Andrei Lukic Kolegayev (russian: Андрей Лукич Колегаев) (22 March 1887 – 23 March 1937) was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary and later Soviet statesman who advocated an alliance with the Bolsheviks. He was born in Surgut, Tobolsk Governorate in the family of an exiled Narodnaya Volya revolutionary. Kolegayev joined the Socialist-Revolutionaries in 1906 and the following year he was expelled from Kharkov University. He was arrested four times and spent seven years in exile. He participated in the October Revolution and was a delegate to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets. He was People's Commissar for Agriculture from 23 December 1917 to 1 March 1918. The officials of the former Ministry of the Interim Government sabotaged the decisions the new government and declared a strike. He was given the post of Commissar of Agriculture, as he was a Left SR. In November 1918 he broke with the Left SRs and joined the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks). During 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levan Gogoberidze
Levan Gogoberidze ( ka, ლევან ღოღობერიძე; 21 January 1896 – 21 March 1937) was a Soviet and Georgian politician. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from May to 19 November 1930. He was replaced as First Secretary because of accusations he was too leftist and was replaced by Samson Mamulia. In 1937 he was shot as part of the Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secret .... Notes References * 1896 births 1937 deaths 20th-century politicians from Georgia (country) First Secretaries of the Georgian Communist Party Great Purge victims from Georgia (country) People from Kutais Governorate Soviet politicians {{USSR-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Glebov-Avilov
Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov (russian: Николáй Пáвлович Глéбов-Ави́лов; 11 October 1887 – 13 March 1937) was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and the first People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs. He was executed during the Great Purge. Early career Born in Kaluga in 1897, Glebov-Avilov was the son of a cobbler who started work in a printshop in Kaluga. He became a Bolshevik in 1904, and during the 1905 Revolution he was active in Moscow, Kaluga and the Urals working in underground printshops, being hidden by the All-Russian Union of Railway Workers. From 1908, he was a professional revolutionary, working for the Bolsheviks in Moscow and the Urals. He founded the illegal newspaper ''The Kaluga Worker (Калужский рабочий).'' After the Kaluga Bolshevik committee was infiltrated by the police, he was arrested and sentenced to a year and eight months imprisonment in a fortress. Released in 1910, he moved to Moscow, and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izrail Agol
Izrail Iossofovich Agol (Russian: Израиль Иосифович Агол; November 20, 1891 – March 8, 1937) was a Soviet geneticist and philosopher. He was a member of the USSR Academy of Science, worked briefly in the United States of America, and took an interest in radiation induced mutagenesis. As a Marxist philosopher, he also studied vitalist and mechanist views in biology and their relation to Marxism. He was killed in the aftermath of Trofim Lysenko's rise in the Stalin regime. Education and revolutionary activities Agol was born in Babruysk, Belarus to a poor Jewish family. He graduated from high school in Vilna. He was drafted during World War I and was part of a local self-defence group against a pogrom in which a friend and his first love were shot dead. Agol took part in the October Revolution, becoming a member of the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party ("RSDLP(b)") in October 1917. In 1919 he was a member of the Central Executive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze,, ; russian: Серго Константинович Орджоникидзе, Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze) born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze, russian: Григорий Константинович Орджоникидзе (18 February 1937), was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician. Born and raised in Georgia, Ordzhonikidze joined the Bolsheviks at an early age and quickly rose within the ranks to become an important figure within the group. Arrested and imprisoned several times by the Russian police, he was in Siberian exile when the February Revolution began in 1917. Returning from exile, Ordzhonikidze took part in the October Revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power. During the subsequent Civil War he played an active role as the leading Bolshevik in the Caucasus, overseeing the invasions of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. He backed their union into the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
