Mikhail Frinovsky
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Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky was a Soviet secret police official who served as a deputy head of the NKVD under Nikolai Yezhov during the Great Purge.
Mikhail Frinovsky in 1935
Yakov Agranov
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Yakov Saulovich Agranov was the first chief of the Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda. He is known as one of main organizers of Soviet political repres
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…People's Commissar for Internal Affairs and Director of the Main Directorate of State Security In office 15 April 1937 – 22 August 1938 Preceded by Yakov Agranov Succeeded by Lavrentiy Beria Chairman of the OGPU of the Azerbaijan SSR In office 6 August 1930 – 3 April 1933 Preceded by Mir Jafar Baghirov Succeeded…
Yakov Agranov in 1934. From left to right: Agranov, Yagoda, unknown, and Redens.