Rzhavsky Yakov Pavlovich (NKVD)

Born in 1897. A native of the town of Boguslav, Kanevsky district, Kyiv province. Jew. From the family of an employee. Secondary education. Member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1919. In 1914–1916 clerk in the wholesale and writing warehouse of Prince Paskevich, then in military service. Since 1917, he served in the Red Guard detachment, then in the Red Army. In the bodies of the Cheka-OGPU since 1921.
- Since March 1924, head of the SO RYAZAN provincial department of the OGPU. Since April 1924, deputy head of the Ryazan provincial department of the OGPU.
- In December 1925 – November 1926. Secretary of JSC AOU and Secretary of the 4th branch of the SO OGPU of the USSR. then authorized and senior authorized of the 1st branch of the EKU OGPU of the USSR.
- Since March 1929, assistant to the head of the 10th department of the EKU OGPU of the USSR. Since November 1930, head of the 1st department of the EKU and assistant to the head of the EKU of the OGPU of the USSR. Awarded the badge "Honorary Worker of the Cheka-GPU".
- In November 1933 – July 1934. assistant and deputy head of the EKO PP OGPU for the Leningrad region. Then deputy head of the ECO of the State Security Directorate of the NKVD for the Leningrad Region. Since December 1936, deputy head of the KRO - 3rd department of the State Security Directorate of the NKVD for the Leningrad Region. On 03/23/1936, captain of state security (Order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 185 of 03/23/1936 - part 1 of 3).
- In 1937, deputy head of the 3rd department of the NKVD of the Leningrad region. Led the case of the poet Nikolai Oleinikov (“Detizdat case”). On May 26, 1937, he was a state security major (Order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 787 of May 26, 1937).
- Arrested on June 25, 1937 and on September 1, 1937, by a visiting session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in Leningrad, he was sentenced to VMN. Shot.
- In 1957, rehabilitation was denied.