Valery Mezhlauk

Valery Mezhlauk
Валерий Межлаук Valērijs Mežlauks
Born	Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (1893-02-07)February 7, 1893 Kharkov (Ukraine, Russian Empire)
Died	29 July 1938(1938-07-29) (aged 45) Kommunarka, Butovo, USSR
Cause of death	Executed during Stalin's Great Purge
Nationality	Latvian-German
Citizenship	USSR
Office	Chairman of the State Planning Committee (1934–1937)
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1907–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)
Spouse	Charna Markovna Mezhlauk (Maers-Mikhailova) (1902–1941)
Relatives	Ivan Mezhlauk (1891–1938) (brother) Martin Ivanovich Mezhlauk (1895–1918) (brother) Valentine Ivanovich Mezhlauk (?–1938) (brother) Cornelius Ivanovich Mezhlauk (1905–1952) (brother)

Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (Russian: Вале́рий Ива́нович Межла́ук; Latvian: Valērijs Mežlauks) (1893–1938) was a government and party official in the Soviet Union during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered as the Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) from 1934 to 1937. He became a victim of Stalin’s Great Purge and was executed on July 29, 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.