Mass operations of the NKVD were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people. As a rule, they were carried out according to the corresponding order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov.
- Ex-kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements
- NKVD Order no. 00447
- Traitor of Motherland Family Members
- NKVD Order no. 00486
- Kharbin operation of the NKVD
- NKVD Order no. 00593
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