Mikhail Frinovsky

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Mikhail Frinovsky
Mikhail Frinovsky in 1935
People’s Commissar for the Navy
In office November 1938 – March 1939
Preceded by	Pyotr Smirnov
Succeeded by	Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov
First Deputy People's Commissar for Internal Affairs
In office April 1937 – August 1938
Preceded by	Yakov Agranov
Succeeded by	Vsevolod Merkulov
Personal details
Born	Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky 7 February 1898 Narovchat, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	4 February 1940 (aged 41) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch/service	NKVD
Years of service	1916–1939
Rank	Komandarm 1st rank

Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Фрино́вский; 7 February 1898 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official who served as a deputy head of the NKVD under Nikolai Yezhov during the Great Purge.

Frinovsky was a revolutionary during the Russian Revolution and rose through the ranks of the Cheka and its successor agencies. Frinovsky was actively involved in the Great Purge and personally led the mass arrests and executions of security and military officials across the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938. Frinovsky was made People's Commissar of the Soviet Navy in 1938 when he was himself removed from power and purged along with Yezhov. Frinovsky was arrested in 1939 on conspiracy charges and executed in 1940.