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Genrikh Yagoda

1891 - 1938

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Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич Яго́да, romanized: Genrikh Grigor'yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. Yagoda also supervised the construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with Naftaly Frenkel, using penal labor from the gulag system, during which 12,000–25,000 laborers died. Like many Soviet NKVD officers who conducted political repression, Yagoda himself ultimately became a victim of the Purge. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Genrikh Yagoda is the 1,865th most popular politician (down from 1,489th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 150th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Russian Politician.

Yagoda was a Soviet politician who was the head of the NKVD during the Great Purge. He is most famous for his role in the purges of the 1930s.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 1,865 out of 19,576. Before him are Sali Berisha, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Emperor Yang of Sui, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Louis the Child, and S. R. Nathan. After him are Claudia Sheinbaum, Peter II of Courtenay, Hiram I, Cyrus the Younger, Richard Cromwell, and Mongkut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 21. Before him are Henry Miller, Rudolf Carnap, Helmuth Weidling, Otto Dix, Rafael Trujillo, and Fritz Todt. After him are Ilya Ehrenburg, Osip Mandelstam, Frederick Banting, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Alexander Rodchenko, and Frank Costello. Among people deceased in 1938, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 19. Before him are Kanō Jigorō, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Karl Kautsky, and Alexei Rykov. After him are Carl von Ossietzky, Suzanne Valadon, Christian Lous Lange, Osip Mandelstam, Suzanne Lenglen, and Robert Johnson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 162 out of 3,761. Before him are Christian Goldbach (1690), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Lyudmila Putina (1958), and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946). After him are Ivan Shishkin (1832), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Alexander Kolchak (1874), Felix Steiner (1896), and Anatoly Dyatlov (1931).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 57. Before him are Walther Funk (1890), Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Vasili III of Russia (1479), Feodor II of Russia (1589), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), and Lyudmila Putina (1958). After him are Alexander Kolchak (1874), False Dmitry I (1581), Eduard Limonov (1943), Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), Yakov Sverdlov (1885), and Öz Beg Khan (1282).

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