In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Yezhov.
Nikolai Yezhov
Николай Ежов
Yezhov in 1938
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs
In office 26 September 1936 – 25 November 1938[1]
Premier
Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by
Genrikh Yagoda
Succeeded by
Lavrentiy Beria
Chairman of the Party Control Commission of the Central Committee
In office 1935–1939
Preceded by
Lazar Kaganovich
Succeeded by
Andrey Andreyev
People's Commissar for Water Transport (NKVT)
In office 8 April 1938 – 9 April 1939
Premier
Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by
Nikolay Pakhomov
Succeeded by
None (position abolished)
Full member of the 17th Central Committee
In office 10 February 1934 – 3 March 1939
Candidate member of the 17th Politburo
In office 12 October 1937 – 3 March 1939
Member of the 17th Secretariat
In office 1 February 1935 – 3 March 1939
Personal details
Born
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov
(1895-05-01)1 May 1895 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died
4 February 1940(1940-02-04) (aged 44) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death
Execution by shooting
Citizenship
Soviet
Political party
Russian/All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1939)
Spouses
Antonia Titova
(m. 1919; div. 1930)
Yevgenia Feigenberg
(m. 1930; died 1938)
Children
1 (adopted)
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Nickname(s)
Ежевика (Yezhevika; "Blackberry")[2] Iron Hedgehog[3] The Bloody Dwarf[4] The Red Dwarf[4]
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Ежо́в, IPA:[nʲɪkɐˈɫajɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ(j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture and executions during the Great Purge, but he fell from Stalin's favour and was arrested, subsequently admitting in a confession to a range of anti-Soviet activity including "unfounded arrests" during the Purge. He was executed in 1940 along with others who were blamed for the Purge.
^Ministers of Internal Affairs. Ministry of the Russian Federation. accessed 17 July 2017
^Sebag-Montefiore, Simon Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, chapter 21.
^Service (2009), chapter 11.
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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Ежо́в, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret...
out mass executions, and oversaw the execution of Genrikh Yagoda and NikolaiYezhov, who headed the NKVD during the purge years. Scholars estimate the death...
Purge. He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of NikolaiYezhov in 1936 and arrested in 1937. Charged with crimes of wrecking, espionage...
the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. It was led by Genrikh Yagoda, NikolaiYezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. The NKVD undertook mass extrajudicial executions...
and made to watch their teenage son being tortured. In December 1936, NikolaiYezhov the newly appointed People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (NKVD),...
geneticist Nikolai Volkoff (1947–2018), professional WWF wrestler NikolaiYezhov (1895–1940), head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge Nikolai Zherdev...
secret police official who served as a deputy head of the NKVD under NikolaiYezhov during the Great Purge. Frinovsky was a revolutionary during the Russian...
Weynschtok By the end of 1937 the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs NikolaiYezhov, in his order #00362 had changed the number of departments from five...
operation was implemented according to NKVD Order No. 00485 signed by NikolaiYezhov. The majority of the shooting victims were ethnically Polish, but not...
Several prominent figures (such as Andrei Bubnov, Alexander Beloborodov, NikolaiYezhov) were sentenced to death during the Stalin era outside these trials...
chief procurator of the Soviet Union, wrote a memorandum to NKVD chief NikolaiYezhov in 1938, during the Great Purge, which stated: Among the prisoners there...
interrogation and torture were directly supervised by NKVD Chief NikolaiYezhov. Stalin instructed Yezhov, "See for yourself, but Tukhachevsky should be forced to...
Affairs (NKVD) Ministers Genrikh Yagoda NikolaiYezhov Lavrentiy Beria Sergei Kruglov NKVD Collegium NikolaiYezhov Mikhail Frinovsky Lev Belsky Leonid Zakovsky...
was not an ally of NikolaiYezhov but some collaborative government business was to be expected due to the membership of NikolaiYezhov in the Secretariat...
the corresponding order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs NikolaiYezhov. The operations of this type in this period targeted "foreign" ethnicities...
during the Great Purge (1936–1938), he was arrested after the fall of NikolaiYezhov in 1939, and later shot without trial by the NKVD in 1941. He was posthumously...
Yagoda dismissed from his post as head of the NKVD, and replaced by NikolaiYezhov) October 3 Platon Volkov November 23 Boris Pinson December 28 Nestor...
retouching photos to remove individuals such as Leon Trotsky, Nikolay Yezhov, and even Stalin. After Stalin ordered the murder of Grigory Kulik's wife...
Bulanov knew NikolaiYezhov well, with whom he had friendly relations, and remained the secretary of the NKVD for a time after NikolaiYezhov became head...
secret police: Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, NikolaiYezhov and Lavrentiy Beria. The books are based on recent publication by Russian...
of the NKVD. During the Great Purge, when the new head of the NKVD NikolaiYezhov was systematically removing officers associated with his predecessor...
bribery and speculation. The People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, NikolaiYezhov, established the OBKhSS as a department of the Main Police Department...
Orlov Sergei Shpigelglas NikolaiYezhov Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov, Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, Hoover Institution...
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