Vsevolod Balitsky
Vsevolod Apollonovych Balytsky was a Commissar of State Security 1st Class of the NKVD and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Balytsky was born in Verkhnodniprovsk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate.
He directed the NKVD of Ukraine during the Great Famine.
On 11 May 1937, he was transferred to the Far East, becoming Commander of the NKVD.
During the Great Purge he was arrested on 7 July 1937. Later, on 27 November 1937 — his 45th birthday — he was sentenced to death and shot the same day in Moscow, then buried at Kommunarka.
