Lazar Kogan

1889–1939 (age 50)

Biography

Lazar Kogan was a Soviet political commissar who served as a political officer in the Red Army and Soviet administration. He worked to advance Communist ideology and party interests.

Kogan was executed at the Kommunarka shooting ground in 1939, becoming a victim of the Great Purge's final waves of repression.

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