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On 11 December 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to Kremlin Affair. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

Is there verification of the involvement of Mikhail Cherniavsky or Alexei Sinelobov besides Svetlana Lokhova? These names are also translated, they are sometimes referred to as "Alexey Sinelobov" or "Michael Cherniavsky" or "Алексей Синелобов"

Svetlana Lokhova has another book talking about Mikhail Cherniavsky:

The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets ISBN 9780008238117

This book by Edward Radzinsky appears to talk about the Kremlin Plot and the involvement of Alexei Sinelobov:

ЭДВАРД РАДЗИНСКИЙ СТАЛИН жизнь и смерть ISBN 9785171179892

".. Алексей Синелобов , секретарь для поручений коменданта
Кремля , был расстрелян , а его сестра получила четыре года . Тогда же получила свой срок уборщица Корчагина « за 
распространение слухов , порочащих руководителей правительства ..."

".. Alexey Sinelobov, secretary for assignments of the Kremlin commandant, was shot, and his sister received four years. At the same time, the cleaning lady Korchagina received her sentence “for spreading rumors discrediting government leaders...”

A JPRS report makes mention of Sinelobov in a

"... a petition addressed to M.I. Kalinin pleading clemency for Aleksandra Gavrilovna Korchagina, an inmate in the Solovki concentration camp. The appeal is written in violet pencil on several pages from an exercise-book on 22 October 1935..."

It says on the letter:

"... A.G. Korchagina, a party member, had worked as a maid in Stalin's family for five years. She was arrested when one of the convicts who used to work in the Kremlin before, a Sinelobov, said that Korchagina allegedly claimed that Stalin himself had shot Nadezhda Sergheyevna. Korchagina denies this fact in her letter, not with much conviction though, invoking an official version of Alliluyeva's "heart attack." Sinelobov (there are no initials in the text - D.V.), guard Ya. K. Glome, who was Korchagina's live-in boy friend, and a nameless secretary of the primary party cell inquired the maid why the cause of death was not given in the papers..."

It also makes mention of a trial,

"... The trials were held Stalin style even then, at the end of 1935 and early 1936. Korchagina writes to Kalinin that investigator Kogan made her admit accusation by using threats and then he sentenced was passed without a trial: the Solovki concentration camp. [Enclosed with the letter is a verdict by NKVD special representative Lutskiy which says that Korchagina A.G.] "is involved in the case of counterrevolutionary terrorist groups in a government library, the Kremlin's commandant's office, and others..."

Both sources mention Korchagina and Sinelobov in the same time frame and generally mention similar events and is accurate to what Korchagina was convicted on,

"Korchagina Alexandra Gavrilovna, born in 1905, Russian, cleaner of the Government House - to 3 years in a camp." (from the CC CPSU)  

I believe the report to be atleast relevant to Alexei Sinelobov's imprisonment, I'm not sure if there is a way of definitively verifying that this is Alexei Sinelobov, it is a JPRS report and connected to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, but I don't think its inherent bias particularly affects the interpretation in this specific section. Padlocks (talk) 22:44, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This case is also sometimes referred to as Дело «Клубок» или «Кремлёвское дело», so alternatively "Tangle Case" or transliterated as "Klubok Case" or just "Kremlin Case" There is not much information about this case on the english internet, there are many exact details such as court dates and the accused of this case that are present on other websites. There are also some resources that refer to this as the "Kremlin Affair" Padlocks (talk) 06:05, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There's also another existing wikipedia article about Abel/Avel Yenukidze, another figure in this case accused of failing to exercise sufficient political vigilance in the Kremlin (didn't serve prison time) that refers to this as the "Kremlin Affair." There is also a wealth of references in that same article about this affair as well. Padlocks (talk) 23:44, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The title of the article should probably be changed for recognizability and consistency, I've noticed that most sources refer to this as the "Kremlin Affair" rather than the "Kremlin Plot," it seems to be an uncommon variation of the case's name. More important is the russian wikipedia article on the same topic, which references the CPSU Central Committee's news on who was charged and how long they were sentenced for. These names are brought forward as those to be executed, corroborating Svetlana Lukhova, of the intitial 30 tried on July 27 1935.

• Aleksey Ivanovich Sinelobov, born in 1899, Russian, member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), secretary for assignments of the commandant of the Moscow Kremlin.
• Chernyavsky Mikhail Kondratyevich, born in 1901, Belarusian, member of the CPSU (b), head of the intelligence department of the Red Army. Both are subject to capital punishment - execution.

The article as a whole is lacking verifiability but most of this information, such as exact court dates and positions occupied by the accused, can likely be gleaned through records. The majority of specific information will be found here, archived Padlocks (talk) 08:17, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In a "project is dedicated to the history of our country and the history of democratic, liberation and revolutionary movements in the world" they have archived many important documents relating to the Kremlin Case that come from RGASPI and were created at the time of the case and used in the trial. The documents have exact dates, with many being interrogations, confrontations, notes, inspections, plans against the terrorist attacks. Archived: ИCTMAT Padlocks (talk) 23:28, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to make a table with those convicted by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union + those convicted by the NKVD, and there's only 109 names. This may be a mistake on my part but the document with all the names, (izvestia no. 7 1989, i linked it above somewhere) says that "Additionally, during the investigation and following a death, the case against Mikhail Yakovlevich Prezent, born in 1896, a Jew, the chief editor of the State Publishing House of Fiction Literature, was terminated." I'm pretty sure he was tried by NKVD special meeting (Special Board of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) since I have all 30 tried by the military collegium.

Padlocks (talk) 23:05, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]