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Mikhail Frinovsky | |
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Михаил Фринoвский | |
 Mikhail Frinovsky in 1935 | |
| People’s Commissar for the Navy | |
| In office November 1938 – March 1939 | |
| Preceded by | Pyotr Smirnov |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov |
| First Deputy People's Commissar for Internal Affairs | |
| In office April 1937 – August 1938 | |
| Preceded by | Yakov Agranov |
| Succeeded by | Vsevolod Merkulov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky 7 February 1898 Narovchat, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 4 February 1940 (aged 41) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union |
| Branch/service | NKVD |
| Years of service | 1916–1939 |
| Rank | Komandarm 1st rank |
Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Фрино́вский; 7 February 1898 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official who served as a deputy head of the NKVD under Nikolai Yezhov during the Great Purge.
Frinovsky was a revolutionary during the Russian Revolution and rose through the ranks of the Cheka and its successor agencies. Frinovsky was actively involved in the Great Purge and personally led the mass arrests and executions of security and military officials across the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938. Frinovsky was made People's Commissar of the Soviet Navy in 1938 when he was himself removed from power and purged along with Yezhov. Frinovsky was arrested in 1939 on conspiracy charges and executed in 1940.