Based on the unknown documents from the archive of Security service of Ukraine, the author investigated to what results led the fulfillment of executive orders of the NKVD in Poltava region.
Based on source study analysis of criminal cases, the author characterized the investigatory methods used by administrative department of the NKVD in Odesa region during «the great terror» of 1937–1938.
The present article is dedicated to repressive measures of NKVD against Ukrainian and Polish population of Eastern Podilya during 1930th. These measures were justified by the necessity to secure western border of republic ...