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Genrikh Yagoda

1891 - 1938

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Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич Яго́да, tr. Genrikh Grigor'yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) 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, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Genrikh Yagoda has received more than 1,586,512 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Genrikh Yagoda is the 1,352nd most popular politician (up from 1,391st in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Russia (up from 159th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Russian Politician.

Yagoda was a Soviet politician who was the head of the NKVD during the Great Purge. He is most famous for his role in the purges of the 1930s.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 1,352 out of 15,577Before him are Seljuk, Toghon Temür, Valdemar IV of Denmark, Henri, Count of Chambord, Alexander of Greece, and Phorcys. After him are Tedros Adhanom, Constantine III, Cyrus I, Andronikos I Komnenos, Adnan Menderes, and Yang Shangkun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 19Before him are Frederick Banting, Pär Lagerkvist, Walther Bothe, Rudolf Carnap, Rafael Trujillo, and Otto Dix. After him are Helmuth Weidling, Ilya Ehrenburg, Fritz Todt, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, John Howard Northrop, and Alexander Rodchenko. Among people deceased in 1938, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 17Before him are Faustina Kowalska, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Robert Johnson, Alexei Rykov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Carl von Ossietzky. After him are Marie of Romania, Muhammad Iqbal, Suzanne Valadon, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Thomas Wolfe, and Maud of Wales.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 146 out of 3,262Before him are Dmitry Donskoy (1350), Walther Funk (1890), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Alexei Kosygin (1904), Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), and Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795). After him are Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Stenka Razin (1630), Andrey Vlasov (1901), and Alexander Glazunov (1865).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Genrikh Yagoda ranks 59Before him are Alexander Kolchak (1874), Felix Yusupov (1887), Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), Martti Ahtisaari (1937), Walther Funk (1890), and Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779). After him are Viktor Zubkov (1941), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Sergey Shoygu (1955), and Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095).