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2 unusual facts about Nikolai Krylenko


Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov

Orlov worked for several years at the Bolshevik High Tribunal under the tutelage of Nikolai Krylenko.

USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945

The Soviet program for producing a new generation of chess masters, originated and supervised by Nikolai Krylenko from the early 1930s, clearly was paying dividends.


Butovo firing range

Among those killed and buried at Butovo were Soviet military commander Hayk Bzhishkyan, Russian statesman Vladimir Dzhunkovsky, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician Nikolai Krylenko, former leader of Hungary Béla Kun, Latvian painter Aleksandr Drevin, Latvian film actress Marija Leiko, bishop Seraphim Chichagov, Prince Dmitry Shakhovskoy and Latvian photographer Gustav Klutsis.


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