Nikolay Mikhailovich Janson (24 November 1882 – 20 June 1938) was an Estonian revolutionary,

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

politician and statesman. Janson was born in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. He was Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (named on 16 January 1928) and

People's Commissar for Water Transport The People's Commissariat for Water Transport (, ''Narodnyy Komissariat Vodnovo Transporta''), usually abbreviated ("Narkomvodtrans") or ("Narkomvod") and also sometimes NKVT, was the Soviet Ministry for Water Transportation. It was responsible, ...

Water transportation is reorganized under new commissioner
/ref> (named on 30 January 1931). On 13 March 1934 he was demoted to the post of Deputy People's Commissar for the offshore part. In July 1935 he lost that position, too, and in October 1935 he was named Deputy Chief of the Northern Sea Route. He was arrested on December 6, 1937, and accused of anti-Soviet espionage and sabotage. He was sentenced to death on 20 June 1938 and shot in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

on the same day.

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1882 births 1938 deaths Lawyers from Saint Petersburg People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd Old Bolsheviks Soviet politicians Communist Party of Estonia politicians Great Purge victims from Estonia 20th-century Estonian politicians Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members {{estonia-politician-stub