Kogan, Lazar Iosifovič

Kogan, Lazar Iosifovich
Лазарь Иосифович Коган
1889 - 1939
Major of state security.
The Chief Of The Gulag. Later, he became a deputy due to the management of large-scale construction projects.

Born in Ukraine, in the province of Yenisei river.
An active revolutionary. A member of the anarcho-communist group. Sentenced to death for a bank robbery in Kiev. Later commuted to a punishment of hard labor. During the civil war Political commissar in the Red army.
1920 - the Chief of the counterintelligence 9. army.
1923 - 1926 - Various offices of the Cheka, the GPU on the North Caucasus.
1926 - the deputy chief of the Political administration of the RA and the armies of the OGPU.
1930 - deputy head of Political administration of the troops of the OGPU.
1930 - 1932 - the chief of the General directorate of corrective labor camps, labor settlements and places of detention.
1932 - the deputy chief of the Gulag. One of the closest associates of M. Bermanna.
The head of the construction Bělomořsko - baltic channel (Bělomotostroje).
1936 - head of the construction of the channel Moscow - Volga.
1936 - 1938 - deputy people's commissar of the forestry sector. Organized the work of the prisoners in the field.
1937 - the deputy of the Supreme soviet.
Arrested 31. January 1938.
3. 1939 march executed according to the judgment of the Military collegium of the Supreme court of the USSR.

Awards
Order of lenin - for the completion of the Bělomořsko-baltic channel.
Order of the red banner.

Resources
wikipedia.ru
In.Abramov, Jews in the KGB Executioners and victims
The literature on the Gulag..
Kogan, Lazar Iosifovič - 1889 - 1939

1889 - 1939
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