Lazar Kogan | |
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Лазарь Коган | |
Head of the Gulag | |
In office 16 June 1930 – 9 June 1932 | |
Preceded by | Fedor Ivanovich Eichmans |
Succeeded by | Matvey Davydovich Berman |
Personal details | |
Born | Elovka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire | November 7, 1889
Died | 3 March 1939 Kommunarka shooting ground, Kommunarka, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union | (aged 49)
Cause of death | Execution |
Citizenship | Soviet Union |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1918–1938) |
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Lazar Iosifovich Kogan (‹See Tfd›Russian: Ла́зарь Ио́сифович Ко́ган; November 7, 1889 – March 3, 1939) was a Soviet secret police (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD) high-ranking functionary,[1] chief of the Gulag (1930–1932) and deputy chief of the Gulag (1932–1936).