hope of imitating the accident, but the train was late, and their plan failed. As it was later possible to establish, the killing was carried out by three cavalrymen who served together with Kotovsky – some Strigunov, Valdman and the third, whose name is still unknown. Zayder's assassins were not convicted. According to the memoirs of Grigory Grigoryevich Kotovsky's son, the chief organizer of the murder of Zayder was Odessit Valdman, in 1939 he was shot in a very different matter. Till now many researchers of Kotovsky's murder are convinced that Zayder was not the only and not the most important criminal, but acted under someone else's leadership. The materials about the murder of Kotovsky were classified. Zayder's friendship with Mishka Yaponchik and Kotovsky's murder, as an act of revenge, became one of the plot lines of the series "The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik". The role of Meyer Zayder (in the series he appears under the name Izya Majorchik) was performed by Alexey Filimonov. See also List of unsolved murders References External links IF THE CORPS COMMANDERS DIE, THEN IT IS NECESSARY FOR SOMEONE... 75 YEARS AGO WAS KILLED BY THE LEGENDARY KOTOVSK If the corps commanders are killed, it means someone needs Collected works. Vol.5. Leaders and companions. Surveillance. Slanders. Persecution Kotovsky "Hell of a chieftain." Amazing life and mysterious death of Grigory Kotovsky 1880s births 1930 deaths Soviet people convicted of murder Unsolved murders in the Soviet Union Year of birth unknown