Yakov Agranov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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NKVD officer
Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1893
Place of Birth: Chachersk, Belarus
Date of Death: 01-Aug-1938
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Yakov Agranov
- Yakov Saulovich Agranov (Russian: ?´??? ???´????? ????´???) (born Yankel Samuilovich Sorenson; 1893 – 1938) 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 organizers of Soviet political repressions and Stalinist show trials in 1920s and 1930s.
- He fabricated the "Tagantsev conspiracy" case and Moscow trials, including Trial of the Twenty One and Industrial Party Trial, as well as mass arrests and executions in Saint Petersburg during Stalin's Great Purge.
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