Israel Pliner

Israel Pliner was a Soviet officer and high functionary of the Soviet secret police agencies|Soviet secret police]. Notable posts include deputy chief of the Gulag from 1935 to 1937 and chief administrator of the Gulag from 16 August 1937 to 16 November 1938.

Biography

Pliner was born in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire. His parents were Jewish.
He joined the Red Army in 1919 and the Soviet Union|Russian Communist Party (b)] in 1922. Pilner was one of the main collaborators of Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD in the years 1936–1938, and collaborator of other organizers of the Great Purge.
He was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activities in 1938 and executed in 1939 at the NKVD's Kommunarka shooting ground.