Yagoda

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Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Russian-language surname
Soviet politician
human
secret police official
surname
allegiance Soviet Union
appointedBy Joseph Stalin
causeOfDeath execution
convictedOf espionage
terrorism
treason
countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1891-11-07
dateOfDeath 1938-03-15
employer NKVD
OGPU
linked to: GPU
ethnicGroup Jewish
fieldOfWork political repression
state security
genreOfActivity secret police operations
languageOfOrigin Russian
mannerOfDeath execution by shooting
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
notableBearer Genrikh Yagoda
notableEvent arrest during Great Purge
show trial in 1938
notableFor leadership of Soviet secret police
role in early Stalinist purges
participantIn Great Purge
Moscow Trials
placeOfBirth Rybinsk
Yaroslavl Governorate
placeOfDeath Moscow
positionHeld People's Commissar for Internal Affairs
head of the NKVD
predecessor Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
residence Moscow
subordinateTo Joseph Stalin
successor Nikolai Yezhov
workLocation Moscow
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Genrikh Yagoda familyName Yagoda