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Sorokin Lev Isakovich (1904)

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NameLev
PatronymIsakovich
Birth year1904
SexM

Sorokin Lev (Lew) Isakovich (1904 — exact date and place of birth unknown; date and place of death unknown) — agricultural specialist, active Party figure.

From 1925, Lev Sorokin worked as chairman of a rural committee of peasant mutual aid societies and as chairman of an agricultural partnership in Mogilev Region. He was a member of the CPSU from 1926 and took part in the collectivisation of agriculture in the Byelorussian SSR.

From 1930 to 1934, he served as director of a state farm, secretary of a rural Party committee, and secretary of a Party cell at an MTS (Machine and Tractor Station). From 1934 to 1937, he received higher education at the Sverdlov Communist Agricultural University in Moscow, which in 1935 was reorganised into the Sverdlov Higher School of Propagandists under the Central Committee of the VKP(b).

From 1937 to 1941, he worked as deputy director of an MTS for political affairs, head of the department of propaganda and agitation, and secretary of a district committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belarus.

From 1941 to 1947, he served in the Soviet Army as a senior instructor of the political department of the 271st Rifle Division, military commissar of a depot, and deputy head for political affairs of NKO Depot No. 163.

From 1947 to 1970, he worked in Riga as director of a united horticultural enterprise, head of a production section, and in other senior positions. After the reorganisation of the Riga Trust of Horticulture and Market Gardening, from 1970 to 1974 he worked as an engineer at the agricultural enterprise “Rīgas Zieds,” and from 1974 as a labourer at the same enterprise.

Lev Sorokin was awarded six medals. He was a personal pensioner.