Levi (Lewy) Mikhail (Michail) Heselevich (1929, Kuldiga) – lawyer.

Mikhail Levi was born into the family of a worker at the Liepaja trading firm Levy Hesel. After World War I, Levi's father became a violinist. Levi's mother worked in a bakery owned by her family. During the war, Mikhail and his parents were evacuated to the Turkmen SSR. His relatives who remained in Latvia perished in the Holocaust.

In 1945, Mikhail Levi was sent to work for the Komsomol in Kuldīga. He worked as a senior pioneer leader and Komsomol organiser at a Russian school, and as a freelance instructor for the Komsomol Executive Committee. He was a district correspondent for the newspaper Soviet Youth. He participated in public events and was awarded a certificate of honour. In 1946, he worked as a translator in a special sector of the Central Committee of the Latvian Communist Youth League in Riga. In 1947, he entered university. At the same time, he worked as a senior pioneer leader and deputy head of the school department of the Komsomol Regional Committee. From 1949, he was a teacher of political subjects at the Riga Maritime School and a tutor at the FZO school of the Ministry of Labour Reserves.

In 1952, Mikhail Levi graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Latvian State University. From 1952, he was a consultant on judicial work for the Ministry of Justice Administration (MJA) in the Daugavpils region. He was deputy secretary of the MJA party organisation and editor of the wall newspaper Soviet Lawyer.

He was a member of the Komsomol from 1943 to 1949 and a member of the CPSU from 1950.

Levi Hesel (…) – father