Ivan Petrovich Bakayev

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Ivan Petrovich Bakayev

Ivan Petrovich Bakajew ( Russian Иван Петрович Бакаев ; * 1887 ; † August 25, 1936 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Bakayev came from a poor farming family in the Saratov province. In 1906 he became a member of the Bolsheviks . He later participated in the October Revolution and the Civil War . In Lenin's time he worked as one of the leaders of the Cheka . Until 1928 he remained a member of the Left Opposition and a supporter of Zinoviev .

Bakayev was sentenced to death and shot as a defendant in the first of the Moscow trials .

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