Yakov Agranov
Yakov Agranov | |
|---|---|
| Director of the Main Directorate of State Security | |
| In office July 1934 – April 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Genrikh Yagoda |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Frinovsky |
| First Deputy People's Commissar for Internal Affairs | |
| In office 29 December 1936 – 15 April 1937 | |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Frinovsky |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Yankel Samuilovich Sorenson 12 October 1893 |
| Died | 1 August 1938 (aged 44) |
| Party | All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) |
| Other political affiliations | Socialist Revolutionary Party (1912–1915) Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1915–1917) |
| Awards | Order of the Red Banner (twice) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1919–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1938) |
| Branch/service | Cheka GPU OGPU GUGB NKVD |
| Years of service | 1919–1938 |
| Rank | Commissioner of State Security 1st Rank |
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Yakov Saulovich Agranov (Russian: Я́ков Сау́лович Агра́нов; born Yankel Samuilovich Sorenson; 12 October 1893 – 1 August 1938) was the first chief of the 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 the 1920s and 1930s. He fabricated the "Tagantsev conspiracy" case and the Moscow trials, including the Trial of the Twenty One and the Industrial Party Trial, as well as mass arrests and executions in Saint Petersburg during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.