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* 1940 – Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet secret police official ( b. 1895 )
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* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).
Other important works of literature include Fyodor Gladkov's Cement ( 1925 ), Nikolai Ostrovsky's How the Steel Was Tempered, and Mikhail Sholokhov's two volume epic, Quiet Flows the Don ( 1934 ) and The Don Flows Home to the Sea ( 1940 ).
In 1940, the leading botanical geneticist Nikolai Vavilov was arrested, and Lysenko replaced him as director of the Institute of Genetics.
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov () ( February 1, 1879 ( Old Style ), Saint Petersburg – May 7, 1940, Moscow ) was a Russian liberal politician and the last Governor-General of Finland.
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov or Ezhov () (; May 1, 1895 – February 4, 1940 ) was the senior figure in the NKVD ( the secret police of the Soviet Union ) under Joseph Stalin during the period of the Great Purge in the 1930s.
Between 1934 and 1940, under Lysenko's admonitions and with Stalin's blessings, many geneticists were executed ( including Israel Agol, Solomon Levit, Nikolai Vavilov, Grigorii Levitskii, Georgii Karpechenko and Georgii Nadson ) or sent to labor camps ( including the most well-known Soviet geneticist, Nikolai Vavilov, who was arrested in 1940 and died in prison in 1943 ).
* Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov ( 1878 – 1940 ), Russian musicologist, son of the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Between 1934 and 1940, many geneticists were executed ( including Agol, Levit, Nadson ) or sent to labor camps ( including the best-known Soviet geneticist, Nikolai Vavilov, who died in prison in 1943 ).
* Chapter 4: The Great Terror – from: " Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895 – 1940 ", by Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov
Andrey Nikolayevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Russian: Андре ́ Никола ́ эвич Ри ́ мский-Ко ́ рсаков, André Nikolájevich Rímskij-Kórsakov, October 17, 1878 – May 23, 1940 ) was a Russian musicologist and son of the great Russian nationalist composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Nikolai Ignatovich Kondratenko ( Russian: Николай Игнатович Кондратенко ) ( 16 Feb. 1940, Plastunovskaya ) is a Russian politician, long time Krasnodar Krai Governor, runner-up candidate of the Communist Party ( KPRF ) in 2003.
It was first created by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1940 as an equivalent to General of the Army, but was not used until 1944, when Ivan Isakov and Nikolai Kuznetsov were promoted to the rank.
He did not immediately plead guilty to alleged crimes, however, only being sentenced on December 15, 1940, well after the fall of Secret Police head Nikolai Ezhov.
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