The Latvian Operation was a national operation of the NKVD against ethnic Latvians, Latvian nationals and persons otherwise affiliated with Latvia and/or Latvians in the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938
A 31 January 1938 resolution by Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to extend the National operations of the NKVD until 15 April for the destruction of Polish, Latvian, German, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Iranian, Harbinian, Chinese and Romanian "spy-saboteur contingent" signed by Josif Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Anastas Mikoyan and Vlas Chubar
Yakov Alksnis, head of the Red Army Air Forces, fell victim to the operation
A memorial stone to all the Latvian victims of the Great Purge buried at Levashovo Memorial Cemetery
Polish Operation of the NKVD
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The Polish Operation of the NKVD in 1937–1938 was an anti-Polish mass-ethnic cleansing operation of the NKVD carried out in the Soviet Union against Poles during the period of the Great Purge. It was
Latvian Operation of the NKVD
…information gathered about Latvians in cultural and political life, the military and other institutions, to be able to arrest them "just as during the Polish operation". On 30 November 1937, in keeping with Order No. 49990 "On carrying out an operation of repressing Latvians" («О проведении операции по репрессированию…
Memorial in Kraków
First page of one of the copies of the Order No. 00485, archived by the Kharkov branch of the NKVD
Memorial to 30 Poles of Vershina, executed on 19 February 1938