Vasily Blokhin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasily Blokhin

NKVD officer and executioner

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1895

Place of Birth: Vladimir Governorate

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1955

Profession: military personnel, executioner

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Russian: ????´??? ????´?????? ?????´?; 7 January 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Soviet Russian Major-General who served as the chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. Hand-picked for the position by Joseph Stalin in 1926, Blokhin led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass killings during Stalin's reign, mostly during the Great Purge and World War II.
He is recorded as having executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including his killing of about 7,000 Polish prisoners of war during the Katyn massacre in spring 1940, making him the most prolific official executioner and mass murderer in recorded world history.
Forced into retirement following the death of Stalin, Blokhin died in 1955, his death being officially reported as a suicide.