Eduard Berzin
Eduard Berzin | |
|---|---|
| Эдуард Петрович Берзин | |
Eduard Berzin in 1935 | |
| Director of the Dalstroy | |
| In office 14 November 1931 – 1937 | |
| Premier | Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Karp Pavlov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Eduards Berziņš 19 February September [O.S. 7 February] 1893 Kreis Wolmar, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia) |
| Died | 1 August 1938 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | VKP(b) |
| Spouse | Elza Mittenberga |
| Children | Pyotr, Mirza |
| Alma mater | Royal Academy of the Arts (Berlin) |
| Awards | Russian Order of St. George 4th Class and others |
Eduard Petrovich Berzin (Russian: Эдуа́рд Петро́вич Бе́рзин, Latvian: Eduards Bērziņš; 19 February 1894 – 1 August 1938) was a Latvian Bolshevik, Chekist and NKVD officer that set up Dalstroy, which instituted a system of slave-labor camps in Kolyma, North-Eastern Siberia, one of the most brutal Gulag regions, where hundreds of thousands of political prisoners died or were murdered in subsequent decades.