Nikolay Rattel
1875–1939 (age 64)
Biography
Nikolay Rattel was a Soviet military officer who served in various capacities within the Red Army. Born in 1875, he was among the older generation of military professionals who contributed to the development of Soviet military institutions.
Rattel was executed at the Kommunarka shooting ground in 1939 during the final wave of the Great Purge. His death marked the end of a long military career that had spanned the revolutionary and early Soviet periods.