Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (Russian: Вячесла́в Рудо́льфович Менжи́нский, Polish: Wiesław Mężyński; 19 August 1874 – 10 May 1934) was a Bolshevik...

manager of the State Political Directorate (OGPU), as the chairman Vyacheslav Menzhinsky had little authority because of his serious illness. In 1924, he...

headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky until his death in 1926, and then by Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, until it was reincorporated as the Main Directorate of State Security...

subordinates who ran the Soviet secret police: Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria. The books are...

charges are considered fabricated except that Valerian Kuybyshev, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, and Maxim Gorky might indeed be poisoned by NKVD chief Genrikh...

in Ukraine is named Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (1874–1934), Polish-Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and Party official Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986)...

Kremlin Wall. Dzerzhinsky was succeeded as chairman of the OGPU by Vyacheslav Menzhinsky. Dzierżyńszczyzna, one of the two Polish Autonomous Districts in...

Genrikh Yagoda, a deputy of OGPU chairman Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, who became NKVD chief in 1934 after Menzhinsky's death. February 20, 1939: It becomes Laboratory...

Rykov (1924–1930) Vyacheslav Molotov (1930–1941) 2 Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (1874–1934) 30 July 1926 10 May 1934 7 years, 284 days Vyacheslav Molotov (1930–1941)...

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