Leopold Averbakh
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Leopold Leonidovich Averbakh was a Soviet literary critic, who was the head of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers in the 1920s and the most prominent member of a group of communist literar
L. L. Averbakh on the Ogoniok magazine
Order of Vasily Ulrich on the immediate execution of 12 people convicted by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. Averbakh is number 1
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,
Leopold Averbakh
…and of Zinovy Sverdlov, who became the adopted son of Maxim Gorky. He was also the son-in-law of Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich. His sister Ida married Genrikh Yagoda, future head of the NKVD. He played a prominent role in the Bolshevik youth movement in his teens, and by the age of 19 he was editor of the literary…
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