Belsky Lev Nikolaevich (1889-1941)

Belsky Lev Nikolaevich (real name and surname: Abram Mikhailovich Levin) (1889, Riga – 1941) – state security officer.

From 1904 to 1907, Lev Belsky was a member of the Bund organisation. In June 1917, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks).

In 1918–1919 Lev Belsky was Chairman of the Cheka of Simbirsk Governorate. In 1919–1920 – Head of the Special Department of the 8th Army. In 1920–1921 – Chairman of the Astrakhan Cheka. In 1921–1922 – Plenipotentiary Representative of the Cheka in the Far East.

From 1923 Lev Belsky was Plenipotentiary Representative of the OGPU of the USSR in Central Asia.

From the early 1930s, Lev Belsky worked in the Moscow Directorate of the OGPU. In 1934, he became head of the Main Directorate of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Militia of the NKVD of the USSR.

In 1936–1938 he was Deputy People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR, later First Deputy People's Commissar of Railways of the USSR.

Lev Belsky was a delegate to the 16th and 17th Congresses of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

From 1935 he was Commissioner of State Security, 2nd Rank.

In 1938, Lev Belsky was was arrested and, in 1941, executed.