Genrikh Yagoda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Genrikh Yagoda

Director of NKVD

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1891

Place of Birth: Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1938

Profession: military personnel, politician

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: ??´???? ?????´?????? ???´??, 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938), born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda was a 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 the arrest, show trial, and execution of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge.
Yagoda supervised the construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with Naftaly Frenkel, using penal labor from the GULAG system, during which 12,000–25,000 laborers died.
He commanded the forced collectivization and is one of the main responsible people for the great famine in Ukraine, responsible for the deaths of up to 10 million people and the deportation of 5 million Russian and Ukrainian peasants. Like many Soviet NKVD officers who conducted political repression, Yagoda himself became ultimately a victim of the Purge.
He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936 and arrested in 1937.
Charged with the crimes of wrecking, espionage, Trotskyism and conspiracy, Yagoda was a defendant at the Trial of the Twenty-One, the last of the major Soviet show trials of the 1930s.
Following his confession at the trial, Yagoda was found guilty and shot.