Pavel Petrovich Bulanov (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич Була́нов; 1895 – March 15, 1938) was a

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

officer and one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites". Bulanov was born in 1895 in the

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in a family of

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/ref> He was secretary to

Genrikh Yagoda Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda ( rus, Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич Яго́да, Genrikh Grigor'yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director ...

, who became head of the NKVD in July 1934. Bulanov served as the first head of the

Special Council of the NKVD Special Council of the USSR NKVD (Особое совещание при НКВД СССР, ОСО) was created by the same decree of Sovnarkom of July 10, 1934 that introduced the NKVD itself. By the decree, the Special Council was endowed with t ...

. In September 1936, Yagoda, who has been removed from his post at the NKVD, ordered Bulanov to spray poison on the walls of the office of his successor, Nikolai Yezhov. Yezhov had implicated Yagoda in the December 1, 1934 assassination of

Sergei Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...

. On March 29, 1937, both Yagoda and Bulanov were arrested on Yezhov's orders. Both were put on trial with 19 others on March 2, 1938. On March 13, 1938, all defendants were found guilty. Bulanov, Yagoda and 16 others out of 22 defendants total were executed two days later. Although Bulanov was rehabilitated after the death of

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

in 1956, Yagoda was never rehabilitated (exonerated).

Bibliography

*N.V. Petrov (Н.В.Петров) y K.V. Skorkin ( К.В.Скоркин). “Quien dirigió el NKVD. 1934-1941" ("Кто руководил НКВД. 1934-1941") (in Russian) * K. A. Zalesskiy "El Imperio de Stalin. Diccionario Enciclopédico Biográfico", Moscú,2000." I. A. Zelenskiy (in Russian)

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