other activities. In Literature Ryumin appears as a character in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel, The First Circle, where he is described as "pink-cheeked and plump, with thin peevish lips". It is suggested that his big break came when a prosecutor reported him to Abakumov for blatantly fabricating a case against a war correspondent. Instead of reprimanding him, Abakumov appointed him a senior interrogator. References 1913 births 1954 deaths Executed Soviet people NKVD officers People executed by the Soviet Union