LEPLEVSKY Israel Moiseevich

Leplevsky Moiseevich Israel (1896, Brest-Litovsk Grodno province - 28.7.1938, Moscow), one of the leaders of public security, the Commissioner of Public Safety 2-rank (26/11/1935). Brother gm. Leplevskogo. From 1909 he worked in the studio nodding, pharmacy stock. In 1910 he joined the "Bund". In 1914, drafted into the army. In Feb.. 1917 joined RSDLP (b). In 1917, a member of the Committee Ekaterinoslav RSDLP (b). In Feb.. 1918 enrolled in the Saratov Cheka. In 1918-19 on the underground work in Yekaterinoslav, then held senior positions in the local department of the Cheka and the GPU, with its beginning 24/5/1922. On 16.2.1923 beginning. Podolsky provincial offices of the GPU, in the 1923-24 executive secretary Podolsky Provincial Committee of the Party. 27/10/1925 - 5/7/1929 beginning. Odessa district department of the GPU. Since July 1929 Deputy. beg., 9/12/1929 early. Secret-operative management of the GPU of Ukraine. Supervised arrests "Ukrainian nationalists". In 1931 moved to Moscow and until 1933 was the beginning. Special Department of the OGPU. 20/2/1933 Leplevsky returned to the Ukraine Deputy. prev. HCP. From 5.1.1934 OGPU plenipotentiary in Saratov edge. 10/12/1934 appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Belarus, but again headed the Special 28.11.1936 (since Dec. 1936 - 5 th) Division, now NKVD. One of the closest associates NI. Yezhov in the organization of mass repression, led to the purges of the Red Army in the first stage of the Great Terror. Since 1937 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. 14.6.1937 sent to the Ukraine People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. 25/1/1938 headed the 6-th (transport and communication) department of the General Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR - from 28.3.1938 Deputy. beg. from the beginning 8.4.1938. 3rd (transport) of the NKVD USSR. Despite the fact that Leplevsky was a loyal assistant Ezhova, he himself got erasures "Iron Commissar '. 26.4.1938 L. arrested. 28/7/1938 sentenced to death. Shot.