Israel Pliner

Israel Pliner (, Izrail Izrailevich Pliner) (1896–1939) was a Soviet officer and high functionary of the Soviet secret police. Notable posts include deputy chief of GULAGS in (1935-1937) and (1937-1938).
Early life.
Pliner was born in the Vilna province of the Russian Empire. His parents were Jewish.
Career.
He joined the Red Army in 1919 and the Russian Communist Party (b) in 1922. Pilner was one of the main collaborators of Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD in the years 1936–1938, and collaborator of other organizers of the Great Purge.
On August 16, 1937, he became the head of the board of the labor camps GULAG NKVD five days after the beginning of Polish Operation of the NKVD. According to NKVD documents, 139,835 Poles who were citizens of the USSR were convicted in 1937. Of this number, 111,091 Poles were directly killed, and 28,744 Poles were sent to GULAG camps.
In 1937, he directed the deportation of 172,000 Korean citizens of the USSR from the Soviet Far East to Central Asia (to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan).
He was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activities in 1938 and executed in 1939.