Genrikh Yagoda
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Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda 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 in 1936
Yagoda on a police information card from 1912
Yagoda, Menzhinsky, Dzerzhinsky, 1920
Yagoda and his wife Ida Averbakh, deputy prosecutor of Moscow, 30 September 1922
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The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated as NKVD, was both the interior ministry and the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Jo
Genrikh Yagoda
…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…
NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda (middle) inspecting construction of what was then called the Moskva-Volga Canal, 1935. Behind him is Nikita Khrushchev
Lavrentiy Beria with Joseph Stalin (in background) and Stalin's daughter Svetlana
Memorial to the NKVD employee in the city of Znamianka