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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Николай Иванович Ежов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4
February 1940) was a
Soviet secret police...
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Yezhov or
Ezhov (Russian: Ежов) is a
Russian masculine surname derived from the word yozh (Russian: ёж),
meaning hedgehog; its
feminine counterpart is...
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Volodymyr Anatoliyovych Yezhov (known by the
nickname "Fresh";
August 1, 1984, Lubny —
December 22, 2022, Bakhmut) was an
Ukrainian video game developer...
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Andrey Sergeyеvich
Yezhov (Russian: Андрей Сергеевич Ежов; 1967 – July 6, 2020),
known as The
Kashirsky Maniac (Russian: Каширский маньяк), was a Russian...
- Purge. He was
demoted from the
directorship of the NKVD in
favor of
Nikolai Yezhov in 1936 and
arrested in 1937.
Charged with
crimes of wrecking, espionage...
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Valentin Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Валентин Иванович Ежов; 21
January 1921
Samara — 8 May 2004 Moscow) was a
Soviet and
Russian screenwriter, playwright...
- sed'moy god) and the
Yezhovshchina (Ежовщина [(j)ɪˈʐofɕːɪnə], lit. 'period of
Yezhov'), was a
political purge in the
Soviet Union that took
place from 1936 to...
- II. The head of the NKVD was
Genrikh Yagoda from 1934 to 1936,
Nikolai Yezhov from 1936 to 1938,
Lavrentiy Beria from 1938 to 1946, and
Sergei Kruglov...
- end of the
Stalinist Great Purge carried out by
previous chief Nikolai Yezhov, whom
Beria purged.
After the
Soviet invasion of
Poland in 1939,
Beria organized...
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eventually turned on
Yezhov. He
appointed Yezhov Commissar of
Water Transport in
April 1938 (a
similar demotion had
happened to
Yezhov's predecessor, Yagoda...
