Stashevsky Artur Karlovich (born Hirshfeld; pseudonym Verkhovsky) (1890, Mitau — 21 August 1937) — resident of Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), trade representative.

Artur Stashevsky completed four classes of a gymnasium. From 1906, he was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL). In 1908, he emigrated, working at factories in Paris and London.

In 1918, he arrived in the RSFSR. He graduated from the Lefortovo School of Red Commanders in Moscow and joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in the same year. During the Civil War, he served as commissar of the 4th Rifle Division and head of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Western Front.

From 1921 to 1924, he was the first resident of the joint residency of the Foreign Department (INO) and Soviet military intelligence in Berlin (officially serving as secretary of the RSFSR trade mission). From 1925 to 1935, he worked in the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade. In 1936–1937, he was the USSR trade representative in Spain.

He was arrested on 8 July 1937. On 21 August 1937, he was sentenced to capital punishment and executed the same day. He was rehabilitated in 1956.