 He was executed at the peak of the Great Purge in Sandarmokh, Karelia, Russia, on 3 November 1937.The executions of various categories of offender and "enemy" - anti-social elements, bourgeois nationalists, former kulaks and White Army officers, foreign saboteurs and spies - were carried out according to quotas assigned to each Region and Republic in the Soviet Union.Enthusiastic subordinates made several requests for increasing their quota of executions and arrests as the targets were reached and exceeded.