# Nikolai Janson

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Estonian revolutionary, communist

Nikolai Janson Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR In office 16 January 1928 – May 1929 Premier Alexei Rykov Preceded by Dmitry Kursky Succeeded by Nikolai Krylenko People's Commissar for Water Transport (NKVT) In office 30 January 1931 – 13 March 1934 Premier Vyacheslav Molotov Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Nikolay Pakhomov Personal details Born 24 November 1882[1] Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire Died 20 June 1938(1938-06-20) (aged 55) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Party RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1905–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)

**Nikolay Mikhailovich Janson** (24 November 1882 – 20 June 1938) was an [Estonian](/source/Estonians) revolutionary, [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) politician and statesman.

Janson was born in [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg). He was [Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR](/source/List_of_Prosecutor_Generals_of_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union) (named on 16 January 1928) and [People's Commissar for Water Transport](/source/People's_Commissariat_for_Water_Transport)[2] (named on 30 January 1931). On 13 March 1934 he was demoted to the post of Deputy People's Commissar for the offshore part. In July 1935 he lost that position, too, and in October 1935 he was named Deputy Chief of the Northern Sea Route. He was arrested on December 6, 1937, and accused of anti-Soviet espionage and sabotage. He was sentenced to death on 20 June 1938 and shot in [Moscow](/source/Moscow) on the same day. He was posthumously [rehabilitated](/source/Rehabilitation_(Soviet)) in 1955.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Hea kommunist on surnud kommunist (3)](https://www.delfi.ee/news/paevauudised/eesti/mihkelson-kas-president-astus-ambrisse.d?id=18302109&com=1&no=240)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Water transportation is reorganized under new commissioner](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DkQdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PEsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1433%2C5947080)

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