Mikhail Matveyev (NKVD officer)

Mikhail Matveyev was an NKVD officer best known for executing 1,111 people at the Solovki prison camp in the Russian Far North. The executions were part of the Great Purge that ran from 1936 to 1937. The 1,111 people executed by Matveyev were done over a four day period in November 1937.[1][2] He died in 1971.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Fishman, Mikhail (9 June 2017). "Stalin's Shadow: How a Gulag Historian Fell Victim to Russia's Dark Past". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  2. ↑ Hoffman, David (13 July 1997). "SITE OF 1,100 STALINIST EXECUTIONS FOUND". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
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