Vsevolod Balitsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vsevolod Balitsky

NKVD Officer

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1892

Place of Birth: Verkhnodniprovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1937

Profession: statesperson

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Vsevolod Apollonovych Balytsky (Ukrainian: ???????? ??????????? ?????????; Russian: ???????? ??????????? ????????; 27 November 1892 – 27 November 1937) was a Commissar of State Security 1st Class (equivalent to Four-star General) of the NKVD and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Balytsky was born in Verkhnodniprovsk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate. He directed the NKVD of Ukraine during the Great Famine. On 11 May 1937, he was transferred to the Far East, becoming Commander of the NKVD. During the Great Purge he was arrested on 7 July 1937.
Later, on 27 November 1937 — his 45th birthday — he was sentenced to death and shot the same day in Moscow, then buried at Kommunarka.