Lazar Iosifovich Kogan ( 1889 - March 3, 1939 ) - leader of the Cheka - OGPU - NKVD of the USSR , senior major of state security (1935), Head of the GULAG of the OGPU ( 1930 - 1932 ). Deputy Head of the GULAG, OGPU-NKVD (1932-1936). Arrested in 1938. Shot in 1939. Rehabilitated in 1956.
| Lazar Iosifovich Kogan | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Chekist of the XIII category (insignia until 1935) | |||||||
| |||||||
| Predecessor | Fedor Ivanovich Eichmans | ||||||
| Successor | Matvey Davidovich Berman | ||||||
| Birth | 1889 | ||||||
| Death | March 3, 1939 | ||||||
| Burial place | |||||||
| The consignment | |||||||
| Awards | |||||||
| Military service | |||||||
| Rank |  | ||||||
Biography
Born in the village of Yelovka in the Krasnoyarsk district of the Yenisei province in a Jewish family, his father traded in furs , was a merchant of the 1st guild [1] .
An active participant in the revolutionary movement, anarcho-communist . In 1908, the Kiev Military District Court sentenced to death for participation in armed robberies, replaced by eternal hard labor, which he served in Yelisavetgrad and Kherson centrals . Member of the Bolshevik Party since July 1918. Served in the Red Army - commissar of the battalion, head of the party school.
In 1920 - head of the Special Department (OO) of the 9th Army, head of the OO under the Cheka of the Tersk Region . Then in the Cheka-GPU in the North Caucasus - the head of the Novorossiysk Cheka, since 1923 - the deputy chief of the Dagestan Cheka.
Since 1926 - assistant to the head of the Main Directorate of Border Guard and troops of the OGPU (GUPO and V / OGPU) of the USSR .
In 1930 - assistant to the head of the OGPU.
In 1930-1932, he was the head of the ULAG of the OGPU , from 1932 he was the deputy chief of the GULAG , the head of Belomorstroy, and until August 1936 he was the head of the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal .
In 1936-1937 - Deputy People's Commissar of the USSR forest industry.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin (1933), the Order of the Red Banner . Member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR in 1935-1937.
He was arrested on January 31, 1938. On March 3, 1939 he was shot by the verdict of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR .
Rehabilitated in 1956.
Named Solzhenitsyn as one of “the main henchmen of Stalin and Yagoda , the main overseers of Belomor , the six hired killers ” guilty of the deaths of tens of thousands of lives [2] [ significance of fact? ] .
Notes
- ↑ Mikhail Tumshis, Vadim Zolotarev . Jews in the NKVD of the USSR. 1936-1938 Experience in a biographical dictionary.
- ↑ “So it would be right for them to lay out six surnames on the channel slopes - the main assistants of Stalin and Yagoda , the main overseers of Belomor, the six assassins, recording for each forty thousand lives: Simon Firin - Matvey Berman - Naftaly Frenkel - Lazar Kogan - Jacob Rappoport - Sergey Zhuk . ”//“ The Gulag Archipelago ”, - Volume 2. Part 3. Chapter 3. ( published in 1978 ; published in 1991 )
Links
- Lazar Iosifovich Kogan (1889-1939) / Antiheroes of the punitive organs of the USSR / History of the punitive organs of the USSR // "Human rights activists against torture"
- Kogan Lazar Iosifovich // "Chronos"