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Events on Tuesday 15 March 1938 3
1881 – 1938Alexei Rykov (1881-1938)Died 15 March 1938, aged 57Rykov succeeded Lenin as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union. He was executed after the Trial of the Twenty-One.
1888 – 1938Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938)Died 15 March 1938, aged 49Bukharin was a Bolshevik theorist, editor of Pravda and head of the Comintern. He was convicted in the third Moscow show trial and shot.
1891 – 1938Genrikh Yagoda (1891-1938)Died 15 March 1938, aged 46Yagoda headed the NKVD during the first Moscow show trials. He was himself convicted in the Trial of the Twenty-One and shot.