Vesna Case

[5] In 2016 the Russian journal Herald of an Archivist [ru] published an article that described the archived documents related to the Vesna Case.

[5] For a long time historians assumed that the destruction of the officer cadre of the Red Army happened during Stalin's Great Purge.

However, for unknown reasons the batch included hundreds of cases concerning Moscow, Leningrad, and Voronezh[6] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yaroslav Tinchenko with the help of the archivists of the Ukrainian security service got an insight into this classified information.

[8] A major instigator of the case was leader of the Ukrainian State Political Directorate (GPU) Izrail Leplevsky, apparently supported by Yagoda.

[11] Among others, arrested were Andrei Snesarev, А. Л. Родендорф, Alexander Svechin, Pavel Sytin, Ф. Ф. Новицкий, Aleksandr Verkhovsky, В. И. Галкин, Ю. К. Гравицкий, Vladimir Olderogge, В. А. Яблочкин, Е. Л. Слухоцкий, Nikolai Sollogub, А. А. Балтийский, Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich, Н. А. Морозов, Aleksei Gutor, А. Х. Базаревский, Mikhail Matiyasevich, В. Ф. Ржечицкий, В. Н. Гатовский, П. М. Шарангович, Д. Д. Зуев, Nikolai Kakurin, И. А. Троицкий.