Yakov Gilyarievich Etinger (russian: Яков Гиляриевич Этингер; 22 December 1887 – 8 March 1951) was a Soviet medical doctor. He was one of the accused in the

Doctor's Plot The "Doctors' plot" affair, group=rus was an alleged conspiracy of prominent Soviet medical specialists to murder leading government and party officials. It was also known as the case of saboteur doctors or killer doctors. In 1951–1953, a gr ...

in 1952-1953, an alleged Zionist plot to kill off the Soviet leadership. Dr. Etinger was tortured by

Mikhail Ryumin Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin Михаил Дмитриевич Рюмин (1 September 1913 – 22 July 1954) was a Soviet security officer and deputy head of the Soviet MGB (Ministry of State Security) who engineered the "Doctors' Plot" in 195 ...

, the Deputy Minister of State Security, who then reported to Minister

Viktor Abakumov Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov (russian: link=no, Виктор Семёнович Абакумов; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1954) was a high-level Soviet Union, Soviet security official from 1943 to 1946, the head of SMERSH in the USSR People ...

, who did not believe there was a plot although he and Ryumin were both present at a later interrogation of Dr. Etinger. Yet another interrogation in the presence of Abakumov was to follow the next morning, in Ryumin's hope to convince Abakumov that such a case existed, but Etinger died under interrogation during the night.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

The Gulag Archipelago ''The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'' (russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, ''Arkhipelag GULAG'') is a three-volume non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr So ...

(New York, Harper and Row, 1973), 157-158.

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The fate of two Etingers
{{DEFAULTSORT:Etinger, Yakov Gilyarievich Soviet physicians Jewish physicians Soviet Jews 1887 births 1951 deaths