Nkvd Officer
1. Pyotr Smirnov (1897)
Nkvd Officer
Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov was a Soviet Commissar Deputy Minister of Defence and Commander of the Soviet Navy.
2. Abram Slutsky (1898)
Nkvd Officer
Abram Aronovich Slutsky headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service then part of the NKVD from May 1935 to February 1938.
3. Avraami Zavenyagin (1901)
Nkvd Officer
Lieutenant-General Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin was a leading figure in the Soviet nuclear projects of the 1940s and 1950s. A protégé of Lavrenti Beria Zavenyagin survived the purge after the death...
4. Yakov Agranov (1893)
Nkvd Officer
Yakov Saulovich Agranov was the first chief of Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda. He is known as one of main...