Iona Nikitchenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Iona Nikitchenko

Soviet jurist

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1895

Place of Birth: Don Host Oblast

Date of Death: 22-Apr-1967

Profession: judge, military personnel, jurist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Major-General Iona Timofeevich Nikitchenko (Russian: ???? ?????????? ??????????) (June 28, 1895 – April 22, 1967) was a judge of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union. Iona was born to a peasant family in khutor Tuzlukov (now Rostov Oblast).
He studied at his local Agricultural Institute and from 1916 was a Bolshevik.
His court experience started in May 1920 when he was appointed as the chairman-deputy of the Military Court of Semirechye Army Group during the Civil War.
During the Civil War, he participated on the frontlines in the Middle Asia.
In 1924, he was appointed as the member of the Military Court Collegiate of the Moscow Military District. Nikitchenko presided over some of the most notorious of Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purges of 1936 to 1938, where he among other things sentenced Kamenev and Zinoviev.