Nikolay Pakhomov

Nikolay Pakhomov
People's Commissar for Water Transport (NKVT)
In office
13 March 1934  8 April 1938
Preceded by Nikolai Janson
Succeeded by Nikolai Yezhov
Personal details
Born December 1893
Taganrog
Died 19 August 1938
Moscow
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Nikolay Ivanovich Pakhomov (Russian: Николай Иванович Пахомов; December 1893 - 19 August 1938) was a Soviet government official.

Pakhomov was born in Taganrog. He was People's Commissar of Water Transport from 13 March 1934 to 8 April 1938. The very next day after being demoted (9 April 1938), he was arrested. He was charged with espionage on fabricated grounds, then sentenced to death and shot, in Moscow. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955.

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