Nikolai Janson

{{Short description|Estonian revolutionary, communist}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Nikolai Janson

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|birth_date = 24 November 1882[http://www.delfi.ee/news/paevauudised/eesti/mihkelson-kas-president-astus-ambrisse.d?id=18302109&com=1&no=240 Hea kommunist on surnud kommunist (3)]

|birth_place = Saint Petersburg, {{nowrap|Russian Empire}}

|death_date = {{death-date and age|20 June 1938|24 November 1882}}

|death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

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|office = Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR

|term_start = 16 January 1928

|term_end = May 1929

|premier = Alexei Rykov

|predecessor = Dmitry Kursky

|successor = Nikolai Krylenko

|office1 = People's Commissar for Water Transport (NKVT)

|term_start1 = 30 January 1931

|term_end1 = 13 March 1934

|premier1 = Vyacheslav Molotov

|predecessor1 = Office established

|successor1 = Nikolay Pakhomov

|party = RSDLP (Bolsheviks) {{nowrap|(1905–1918)}}
Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)

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Nikolay Mikhailovich Janson (24 November 1882 – 20 June 1938) was an Estonian revolutionary, Soviet politician and statesman.

Janson was born in Saint Petersburg. He was Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (named on 16 January 1928) and People's Commissar for Water Transport[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DkQdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PEsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1433%2C5947080 Water transportation is reorganized under new commissioner] (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 on the same day.

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