Lev Borisovich Zalin (real name Zalman Markovich Levy or Zelman Markovich Levin , 1897 - January 22, 1940 ) - a senior official of the Soviet special services of the ChK-OGPU-NKVD . State Security Commissioner of the 2nd rank (11.26.1935). He was a member of the special trio of the NKVD of the USSR . Shot [1] .
| Zalin Lev Borisovich | |||||||||
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| Predecessor | Paradise (Lehtman), Naum Markovich | ||||||||
| Successor | Zagvozdin, Nikolay Andreevich | ||||||||
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| Predecessor | The NKVD of the Kazakh SSR was formed on January 7, 1937 by order of the NKVD No. 003 | ||||||||
| Successor | Redens, Stanislav Frantsevich | ||||||||
| Birth | 1897 Smorgon Oshmyany county, Vilna province | ||||||||
| Death | January 22, 1940 Moscow | ||||||||
| The consignment | Poalei Zion 02.1918 - 08.19.19 RCP (b) - VKP (b) | ||||||||
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| Rank |  (11/26/1935) | ||||||||
| Battles | Soviet-Polish war | ||||||||
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Biography
Born in the town of Smorgon, Vilna province in the family of a clerk. Jew. He was a member of Jewish youth organizations. Party member Poalei Zion . Worked as a teacher. In 1917 he joined the RCP (b). He worked in Kursk , in 1918 secretary of the Kursk Commissariat for Jewish Affairs.
In 1918 he moved to Moscow where from August to November 1918 he was an instructor in the legal department of the Baumansky district executive committee of Moscow.
He was sent to Lithuania. In late 1918 - early 1919 - the organizer of partisan detachments in Lithuania, chairman of the RKP (b) underground committee of the RKB, editor of the newspaper, was arrested by the German authorities there, but released (according to other sources, exchanged).
Cheka
Since 1918 in the Cheka. Member of the Board of the Cheka. Chairman of the Panevezhynska Cheka 04.1919—07.1919, member of the board of the People’s Commissariat of Labor of the Lithuanian-Belarusian SSR 07.1919, deputy. Commissar of Labor of the Lithuanian-Belarusian SSR 07.1919-08.08.1919.
Soviet-Polish War
From August 1919 to the Red Army : Head of the International Division of the Political Department of the 16th Army and 3th Army 09.1919–03.1920. Member of the capture of Minsk and the campaign in Warsaw.
VChK-OGPU-NKVD
In 1920-1921 in the army Special Departments. Since January 1921 he worked in the Economic Department of the Cheka.
From April 1921 to July 1922 at the INO VChK-GPU - assistant chief, head of the informational part of the INO VChK-GPU At the same time he worked in the Special Department (head of the 11th special department in January - May 1922).
From July to December 1923 - at illegal work in Germany .
In 1924-1927 - assistant to the head of the Special Department of the OGPU at the SNK of the USSR.
In 1927-1929 - head of the Secret Operational Directorate of the Embassy, part-time deputy plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU in the Belarusian Military District and deputy chairman of the GPU of the Belarusian SSR.
From March 1929 to September 1930 - plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU in the Western region .
From September 1930 to August 1931 - Deputy Head of the Special Department of the OGPU of the USSR.
From August 1931 to July 1934 - Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the OGPU in Central Asia. From July to November 1934 - 1st Deputy Head of the NKVD Directorate for Central Asia. From November 1934 to January 1935 he was the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Uzbek SSR and at the same time the head of the Special Department of the GUGB of the NKVD of the Central Asian Military District. From January 1935 to January 1937 - head of the NKVD Directorate of the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. From January 1937 to January 1938 - Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Kazakh SSR. This period was marked by the inclusion of a special troika created by order of the NKVD of the USSR dated 30.07.1937 No. 00447 [2] and active participation in the Stalinist repressions [3] .
From March to June 1938 - Head of Division 9 of the 1st Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR (KGB surveillance of trade, procurement and agriculture).
Arrest and execution
In June 1938 he was dismissed from the NKVD and expelled from the party. On June 7, he was arrested on charges of "participating in the NKVD conspiracy, espionage and preparing terrorist attacks." On January 21, 1940, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR imposed a death sentence on Zalin. Shot on January 22, 1940. According to the historian N.V. Petrov , he was rehabilitated by the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office dated November 8, 2012 [4] [5] . On December 12, 2013, the Supreme Court declared Zalin not to be rehabilitated.
Rewards
- badge “Honorary Worker of the Cheka — GPU (V)” No. 161 1924
- Order of the Red Banner 12/14/1927
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the Turkmen SSR 1932
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the Tajik SSR No. 195 11/12/1932
- badge "Honorary Worker of the Cheka - GPU (XV)" 12/20/1932
- Order of the Red Banner 02.14.1936
- Order of the Red Star 12/19/1937
- medal "XX years of the Red Army" 02/22/1938
- sign "XV years to Kazakhstan"
Notes
- ↑ Zalin L. B. // Petrov N. V., Skorkin K. V. Who led the NKVD, 1934-1941: reference book / Ed. N. G. Okhotin and A. B. Roginsky. - M .: Links, 1999 .-- 502 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-7870-0032-3 .
- ↑ Compositions of triples in 1937−1938 // Website Nkvd.memo.ru
- ↑ Stalin's plan to exterminate the people: Preparation and implementation of the NKVD order No. 00447 “On the operation to repress former fists, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements” // Archive of Alexander N. Yakovlev
- ↑ Vladimir Barinov. The court will review the case of the NKVD officer who imprisoned designer Korolev // Izvestia , March 14, 2013.
- ↑ Timur Archived May 18, 2015 on Wayback Machine
Literature
- Zalin L. B. // Petrov N. V., Skorkin K. V. Who led the NKVD, 1934-1941: reference book / Ed. N. G. Okhotin and A. B. Roginsky. - M .: Links, 1999 .-- 502 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-7870-0032-3 .