Jānis Rudzutaks

Jānis Rudzutaks
Ян Рудзутак
Rudzutaks in the 1920s
People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate
In office
9 October 1931 – 11 February 1934
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Preceded byAndrey Andreyev
Succeeded byPost abolished
People's Commissar of Communication Routes
In office
2 February 1924 – 11 June 1930
PremierAlexey Rykov
Preceded byFelix Dzerzhinsky
Succeeded byMoisey Rukhimovich
Full member of the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th Politburo
In office
23 July 1926 – 26 May 1937
Candidate member of the 12th, 13th, 14th Politburo
In office
26 April 1923 – 23 July 1926
Full member of the 12th Secretariat
In office
26 April 1923 – 2 February 1924
Personal details
Born(1887-08-15)15 August 1887
Died29 June 1938(1938-06-29) (aged 50)
PartyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1905–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)

Jānis Rudzutaks (Russian: Ян Э́рнестович Ру́дзутак, romanizedYan Ernestovich Rudzutak; 15 August [O.S. 3 August] 1887 – 29 July 1938) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He was executed during the Great Purge.