Terenty Deribas
Terenty Deribas | |
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Far Eastern Commander of the NKVD | |
In office 10 July 1934 – 31 July 1937 | |
Succeeded by | Vsevolod Balitsky |
Personal details | |
Born | Terenty Dmitrievich Deribas 1883 Uspenskoe, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | July 28, 1938 (aged 55) |
Nationality | Soviet |
Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1937) |
Terenty Dmitrievich Deribas (Russian: Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас; 28 March 1883 – 28 July 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Chekist and later a 1st rank State Security Commissioner in the NKVD.
Deribas was born in the village of Uspenskoe, Kherson Governorate.[1] He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1904.
In November 1918, Deribas joined the Cheka and the Red Army, and was chief of the political department of several divisions. He took part in suppression of counter-revolutionary uprisings, including those of Kronstadt and Tambov.
In 1929, Deribas was transferred as a representative of the OGPU to the Far East, where he led a massive repression. In 1931, he became a member of the board of the NKVD.
During the Great Purge, Deribas was removed from his post on accusations of Trotskyism (31 July 1937), then arrested (12 August 1937), sentenced to death (28 July 1938), and shot on the same day, at the firing range Kommunarka.
He was posthumously rehabilitated on 31 December 1957.
References[]
- ^ "Жертвы политического террора в СССР". Lists.memo.ru. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
- The information in this article is partially based on that in its Russian equivalent.
- 1883 births
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