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Ezhov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1895-1940

LC control no.nr 95041600
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Personal name headingEzhov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1895-1940
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Variant(s)Ежов, Николай Иванович, 1895-1940
Yezhov, Nikolay Ivanovich, 1894-1940
Ezhov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1895-
See alsoEmployer: Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del
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Other standard no.Q141860
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Birth date[1895-04-20, 1895-05-01]
Death date1940-02-04
Place of birthMarijampolė (Lithuania)
Place of deathMoscow (Russia)
Field of activityInternal security--Soviet Union
AffiliationSoviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del
Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1925-1952)
Profession or occupationPolice
Politicians
Intelligence officers
Communists
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inDva stalinskikh narkoma, 1995: p. 176-177 (... Nikolai︠a︡ Ezhova; ... Nikolai︠a︡ Ivanovicha Ezhova; b. 1895, St. Petersburg)
Mod. encyc. of Russian and Sov. history: v. 11, p. 34-39 (Ezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich; 1895-1939; party activist; head of NKVD 1936-1938; b. 1895, St. Petersburg)
Encyc. Brit.: (Yezhov, Nikolay Ivanovich, 1894-1939? Russian Communist Party official and chief of the NKVD. He was responsible for the terror purges known as the Yezhovshchina)
Bolʹsh. sov. ėnt︠s︡ikl., 3rd ed.: v. 1, p. 426 (Ezhov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1895-1940: Soviet party activist and Commissar of the Gos. bezopasnosti in 1937, chief of the NKVD during 1936-38; in 1939 he was arrested and then executed)
LC PreMARC file (hdg.: Ezhov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1895- )
Trinadt︠s︡atʹ "zheleznykh" narkomov, 1995: p. 8 (Ezhov Nikolaĭ Ivanovich; head of the NKVD from 1936-1938; b. 1895, shot in 1940) p. 205, etc. (arrested on 10 April 1939, condemned to death on 3 Feb. 1940 by the Voennai︠a︡ kollegii︠a︡ Verkhovnogo Suda and executed on 4 Feb. 1940)
Biog. dict. of the Former Soviet Union: p. 128 (Ezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich; 1895-1939; arrested and disappeared in March 1939; probably executed soon thereafter)
N.I. Ezhov, Stalin i zagovor v VKVD, 2013: title page (N.I. Ezhov)
Russian Wikipedia via WWW, Feb. 12, 2014 (Ezhov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1 mai︠a︡ 1895 - 4 fevrali︠a︡ 1940 goda, generalʹnyĭ komissar gosbezopasnosti)
Sokolov, B. V. Nikolaĭ Ezhov i sovetskie spet︠s︡sluzhby, 2022: pages 4-5 (parish register preserved in the Lithuanian State Archives shows Ezhov was actually born April 8 (N/S 20), 1895 in Marijampolė; he later claimed to have been born April 19 (N/S May 1), 1895 to share birthday with the international workers' holiday; family moved to Saint Petersburg only in 1906)
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