Israel Leplevsky
- Birth Date:
- 00.00.1896
- Death date:
- 28.07.1938
- Length of life:
- 42
- Days since birth:
- 46862
- Years since birth:
- 128
- Days since death:
- 31313
- Years since death:
- 85
- Patronymic:
- Moiseevich
- Extra names:
- Izrail Leplewski, Израиль Леплевский, ЛЕПЛЕВСКИЙ ИЗРАИЛЬ МОИСЕЕВИЧ
- Categories:
- KGB, Repression organizer, supporter, WWI participant
- Nationality:
- russian, jew
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Israel Moiseevich Leplevsky (1894 - July 28, 1938) was the head of the GPU in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR from June 14, 1937 to January 25, 1938. His brother Gregory Leplevsky also worked in senior positions in the Soviet Union, including as Prosecutor of the USSR.
Early years
Born into a Jewish family in Brest-Litovsk, Grodno Governorate, Leplevsky received a home education and worked afterwards in a hat shop, and in a pharmacy warehouse. In 1914 he was enrolled as a conscript in the Russian army and served on the Turkish front from October 1914 till June 1917.
Political career
In March 1917, Leplevsky became active in the Bolshevik party in Tbilisi.
From June 1917 he was a member of the military organization of the RSDLP (Bolshevik) in Yekaterinoslav. Afterwards he made a career in the Soviet secret service, the GPU, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, culminating in his appointment as People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR from June 14, 1937 to January 25, 1938.
He was arrested on April 26, 1938, and on 28 July he was shot according a sentence passed by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
Source: wikipedia.org, memo.ru
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Relations
| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Grigorij Leplevskij | Brother | |
| 2 |  | Артем Зеленый | Coworker | |
| 3 |  | Nikolajs Ježovs | Employer, Idea mate | |
| 4 |  | Ефим Кривец | Employee | |
| 5 |  | Соломон Мазо | Employee, Soldier |
11.08.1937 | Genocide against non-russians in USSR. Polish Operation of the NKVD (1937–38).Order № 00485
In the fourteen months after the adoption of Order № 00485, some 143,810 Polish people were taken into custody, of whom 139,885 were sentenced by extrajudicial organs, and 111,091 executed (nearly 80% of all victims)