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The Unregulated Working Day of an Executioner

The workweek of the NKVD commandant for the Kharkov region, Lieutenant of State Security Artem Petrovich Zeliony:

May 21, 1938, Saturday - Execution order (80 people);
May 22, 1938, Sunday - Execution order (1 person);
May 23, 1938, Monday - 2 execution orders (106 people);
May 24, 1938, Tuesday - No execution order;
May 25, 1938, Wednesday - Execution order (144 people);
May 26, 1938, Thursday - Execution order (2 people);
May 27, 1938, Friday - No execution order;
May 28, 1938, Saturday - Two execution orders (43 people);

Total (May 21-28, 1938): 376 people.

Artem Petrovich Zeliony

From the known testimony of the former employee of the Kharkov NKVD, Mitrofan Syromyatnikov:

"...I remember that when I escorted the arrested to the basement, I had to see that the commandant Zeliony entered the room where the arrested were taken, holding a revolver in his hands. From the same room, after some time, we removed the bodies. I can't remember exactly when the executions and burials took place on the Jewish cemetery. However, they did not happen every day, but apparently as detainees were accumulated, sentenced to the highest measure of punishment. Burials in the Jewish cemetery took place approximately until mid-March 1938.
Then a new burial place was organized, which was located in the Forest Park, along the Belgorod Highway towards the city of Belgorod, in the forest, about 1.5 kilometers from the settlement of Pyatykhatky, approximately 200 meters to the right of the road..."

Currently, around 5500 personally signed execution orders have been attributed to him. For exemplary and dedicated execution of crucial government tasks, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star on December 19, 1937.

1. Belonozhko Fedor Ivanovich, born in 1886.

2. Raznatovsky Venedikt Semenovich, born in 1895.

3. Samofalov Pavel Artemovich, born in 1883.

4. Kharlamov Petr Kuzmich, born in 1901.

5. Alexandrov Ivan Alexandrovich, born in 1890.

6. Sofinskiy Pavel Stepanovich, born in 1889.

7. Burbe Arnold Lyudvigovich, born in 1890.

8. Shumov Leontiy Andreevich, born in 1883.

9. Belous Alexey Antonovich, born in 1896.

10. Chekhov Leonid Dmitrievich, born in 1893.

11. Danilevskiy Sergey Fedorovich, born in 1898.

12. Lebedev Ivan Ivanovich, born in 1895.

13. Panteleev Pavel Mikhailovich, born in 1885.

14. Lychevko Sergey Fedorovich, born in 1895.

15. Gatinsky Yakov Yuryevich, born in 1895.

16. Novikov Dmitry Zosimovich, born in 1897.

17. Gorchinskiy Konstantin Iosifovich, born in 1903.

18. Slavskiy Leonard Kazimirovich, born in 1902.

19. Khizhnyakov Nikolay Andreevich, born in 1886.

20. Potemkin Anatoliy Nikolaevich, born in 1880.

21. Gorbachev Alexander Vasilyevich, born in 1897.

22. Kachinskiy Leonid Fomich, born in 1891.

23. Skripin Pavel Yermolaevich, born in 1878.

24. Malkevich Iosif Ivanovich, born in 1884.

25. Zhebinev Petr Ivanovich, born in 1885.

26. Khudyakov Sil'verst Vasilyevich, born in 1894.

27. Popov Petr Kirillovich, born in 1897.

28. Rogov Pavel Nikolaevich, born in 1904.

29. Shevchenko Stepan Ivanovich, born in 1905.

30. Vysotskiy Franz Feliksovich, born in 1897.

31. Prigodskiy Karl Franzevich, born in 1911.

32. Vysotskiy Stanislav Iosifovich, born in 1897.