Certificate from the editorial Board of the magazine "USSR at the construction site" signed by E. S. Ezhova, issued ...

Certificate from the editorial Board of the magazine "USSR at the construction site" signed by E. S. Ezhova, issued by Katanyan G. D., that she was instructed to pick up Komsomol students for shooting at the agricultural Academy, named after Timiryazev, the Music College and the ball Bearing factory.
Moscow. Editorial Board of the magazine "USSR at the construction site". June 17, 1937 editorial form, format 16 x 22.5 cm. Good preservation.

["USSR in Construction "(alternative names: "USSR in Construction", "USSR im Bau", "URSS en construction", "URSS en Construcción") was a Soviet monthly illustrated news and propaganda magazine published from 1930 to 1941, and in 1949.

The official editors-in-chief in the 1930s were Georgy Pyatakov, Valery Mezhlauk, and Alexander Kosarev. The de facto editor-in-chief of the magazine was Yevgenia Khayutina.

Yevgenia Solomonovna Khayutina (nee Feigenberg (1904, Gomel — November 21, 1938, Moscow) was a Soviet publishing worker.

In the 1930s — officially — Deputy editor-in — chief, and de facto-editor-in-chief of the magazine "USSR at the construction site" (the official editors-in-chief in these years were Georgy Pyatakov, Valery Mezhlauk, Alexander Kosarev). The hostess of the literary salon, which was visited by famous writers, as well as prominent stage and film figures: Isaac Babel, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Koltsov, Sergei Eisenstein, Leonid Utesov and others. Representatives of the Soviet nomenclature were also frequent guests at these evenings. Known as the wife of Nikolai Yezhov. She committed suicide (according to another version, she was killed by her husband).

Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (April 19 [may 1] 1895, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire — February 4, 1940, building of the Supreme court of the USSR, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) — Soviet party and statesman, General Commissioner of state security (from January 28, 1937, January 24, 1941 stripped of the title). The Chairman of the party control Commission under the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) (1935-1939), member of the organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) (1934-1939), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) (1935-1939), a candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU(b) (1937-1939). People's Commissar of internal Affairs of the USSR (1936-1938), people's Commissar of water transport of the USSR (1938-1939).

As people's Commissar of internal Affairs, acting under the leadership of Stalin, Yezhov became one of the main organizers of the mass repressions of 1937-1938, known as the Great terror. 1937, during which Yezhov headed the NKVD, became a symbolic designation of repression, and the period that marked the peak of Soviet repression, was called yezhovschina. In 1939, he was arrested and shot a year later on charges of preparing an anti-Soviet coup.]