Valery Mezhlauk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Valery Mezhlauk

Soviet political activist

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1893

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 29-Jul-1938

Profession: politician, economist, cartoonist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (Russian: ????´??? ???´????? ?????´??; Latvian: Valerijs Mežlauks) (1893–1938) was a government and party official in the Soviet Union during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s.
He is best remembered as the Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) from 1934 to 1937.
He became a victim of Stalin’s Great Purge and was executed on July 29, 1938.
He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.