Editing Mikhail Matveyev (section)

{{Villain_Infobox
|image = MatveevMikhAlex.jpg
|fullname = Mikhail Rodionovich Matveyev
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|origin = St. Petersburg, Russia
|occupation = [[Cheka]]/[[NKVD]] executioner
|type of villain = Sadistic Murderer
|goals = 
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>Extrajudicial [[murder]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]
|hobby = Killing people}}'''Mikhail Rodionovich Matveyev''' (1892-1971) (Михаил Родионович Матвеев) was a senior executioner for varioius Soviet [[secret police]] organizations, sent to begin the mass shootings at Sandarmokh in Karelia in the late 1930s.

After completing two years of education at a village school, the young Matveyev moved to St Petersburg where he held various occupations: he was a doorman at an apartment block, for instance, before becoming in 1913 an assistant to a metal-worker at the Vulcan works. Following the 1917 February Revolution he joined the Bolsheviks and soon was serving as a [[Cheka]] executioner. In 1923 he took a few years away from his new occupation. From 1927 onwards Matveyev was back with the successor organisations, the OGPU and NKVD, as an executioner in the Leningrad Region.

On November 28<sup>th</sup>, 1936, together with two other future Sandarmokh executioners (A.P. Polikarpov and P.D. Shalygin)—and the notorious [[Vasily Blokhin]]—Captain Matveyev received the Order of the Red Banner for his "struggle to secure the [[communist]] system", viz. they acted as executioners of those supposed to be its enemies.