Israel Pliner

Israel Pliner (Template:Lang-ru, Izrail Izrailevich Pliner) (1896–1939) was a high functionary of the Soviet secret police, Jewish by origin. Notable posts include deputy chief of GULAG (1935-1937) and chief of GULAG (1937-1938).

He 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 Terror in the USSR.

On August 16, 1937, he became the head of the board of the communist concentration 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 communist GULAG concentration 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 in 1938 and shot in 1939.