Efim Georgievich Evdokimov
| Yefim Yevdokimov Ефим Георгиевич Евдокимов |
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| First Secretary of the North Caucasus Regional Committee of the CPSU | |
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In office January 1934 – 13 March 1937 |
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| Preceded by | Boris Sheboldayev |
| Succeeded by | Post disestablished |
| First Secretary of the Azov-Black Sea Regional Committee of the CPSU | |
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In office 13 March 1937 – 13 September 1937 |
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| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Post disestablished |
| First Secretary of the Rostov Regional Committee of the CPSU | |
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In office 13 September 1937 – May 1938 |
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| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Boris Dvinsky |
| Deputy People's Commissar of Water Transport of the Soviet Union | |
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In office May 1938 – 9 November 1938 |
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20 January 1881 Kopal, Semirechye Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | 2 February 1940 (aged 49) Communarka shooting ground, Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Communarka shooting ground |
| Nationality | Russian |
Yefim Georgievich Yevdokimov (Russian: Ефи́м Гео́ргиевич Евдоки́мов, 20 January [O.S. 8 January] 1891 – 2 February 1940) was a Soviet politician and member of the Cheka. He was a key figure in the Red Terror, the Great Purge and dekulakization that saw millions of people executed and deported.
Yevdokimov himself was arrested on 9 November 1938 and executed 2 February 1940. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
Yevdokimov was born in Kopal, Semirechye Oblast, Russian Empire (now Qapal, Kazakhstan). His father, Georgy Savvateyevich Yevdokimov, was a peasant from Kursk who joined the Semirechye Cossacks. In Semirechye he married a young peasant, Anastasia Arkhipovna. After Yefim was born in 1891, the family moved to Chita.
Yevdokimov was in prison at the time of the 1917 revolution, reputedly as a criminal rather than for political reasons, but was freed by the revolution, and joined the Cheka. In the late 1920s, he was chief of the OGPU in the North Caucasus region, based in Rostov. In this capacity he is reputed to have initiated the purge that culminated in the Shakhty Trial, the first Stalinist show trial, against the wishes of his superior, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky. He was barred from further promotion in the secret police, but switched to party work as First Secretary of the North Caucasus Regional Committee of the CPSU in January 1934.
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