Nikolai Yezhov
1895 – c. 1939
Russian

Head of the Soviet secret police. He disappeared, probably eliminated by Stalin.

Contemporaries
1896–1974Giorgiy Zhukov
1883–1936Grigoriy Zinoviev
1927–2013Tatyana Zaslavskaya
1884–1937Yevgeny Zamyatin
1931–2007Boris Yeltsin
1896–1934Lev Vygotsky
1828–1910Count Leo Tolstoy
1902–1982Mikhail Suslov
1862–1911Peter Stolypin
1852–1895Stepnyak
c. 1886–1934Alexandre Stavisky
1906–1977Alexey Stakhanov
1853–1900Vladimir Solovyev
1918–2008Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1928–2014Eduard Shevardnadze
1921–1989Andrey Sakharov
1881–1938Alexey Rykov
c. 1871–1916Grigoriy Rasputin
1885–c. 1939Karl Radek
1856–1918Georgiy Plekhanov
1938–1993Rudolf Nureyev
1902–1977Alexander Luria
1870–1924Vladimir Lenin
1842–1921Pyotr Kropotkin
Born 1931Mikhail Gorbachev
1872–1918Alexandra Feodorovna
1877–1926Felix Dzerzhinsky
1872–1929Sergei Diaghilev
1888–1938Nikolay Bukharin
1923–2011Yelena Bonner
1880–1921Alexander Blok
1909–1997Sir Isaiah Berlin
1899–1953Lavrenti Beria
1838–1906Friedrich Beilstein
1857–1927Vladimir Bekhterev
1904–1983George Balanchine
1920–1992Isaac Asimov