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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.
Most of the accused, including Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov and Genrikh Yagoda, were convicted, and sentenced to death. All charges are considered fabricated except those of Valerian Kuybyshev , Vyacheslav Menzhinsky , and Maxim Gorky who might indeed have been poisoned by NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda with the assistance of "Kremlin's doctors ...
25 (Genrikh Yagoda dismissed from his post as head of the NKVD, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov) October. 3 Platon Volkov [2] November. 23 Boris Pinson. December. 28 Nestor Lakoba (suspected poisoning)
Pressure to execute the plotters came from the NKVD and its head, Genrikh Yagoda, rather than Stalin himself. Unlike his later curt agreement with execution requests, Stalin only agreed with the execution of two people among a total of twenty-six people whose death was demanded.
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н; 19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Soviet secret police official who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolay Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria.
The fact that Genrikh Yagoda was one of the accused showed the speed at which the purges were consuming their own. Meant to be the culmination of previous trials, it now alleged that Nikolai Bukharin and others had conspired to assassinate Lenin and Stalin numerous times after 1918 and had murdered Soviet writer Maxim Gorky by poison in 1936.
Entrance gate into the Kommunarka shooting ground in 2012 Grave markers for some of the victims at Kommunarka Photos of some of the victims. The Kommunarka firing range (Russian: Расстрельный полигон «Коммунарка»), former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941.
Pavel Bulanov. Pavel Petrovich Bulanov (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич Була́нов; 1895 – March 15, 1938) was an NKVD officer and secretary to Genrikh Yagoda, who became head of the NKVD in July 1934.