Litvin, Mikhail Iosifovich

Litvin was born in a poor Jewish family.

In 1916-1917 he served in the royal army . Entered the RSDLP (b) in 1917.

In the years 1917-1918 - Chairman of the Factory Committee of the Union of Printers, in the Yenisei Province SNK, Commissioner of the Printing House (Krasnoyarsk). He was arrested by whites, was in prison.

In 1919-1920 he was in the underground work ( Krasnoyarsk , Khabarovsk ).

In the years 1921-1922 - by the military commissar of the regiments, the military commissar of the front, the head of the Special Section.

In the years 1922-1923 - Executive Secretary of the Far Eastern Bureau of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions .

In 1923–1926 - Chairman of the Oryol Provincial Council of Trade Unions.

In 1926-1929 - Chairman of the Kazakhstan Regional Council of Trade Unions .

In 1929-1930 - Chairman of the Central Asian Bureau of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.

In 1930-1933 - Head of the Distribution Bureau of the Central Asian Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) , Deputy Head of the Sector of Planning and Financial Personnel of the Distribution Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), Head of the Sector of Planning and Financial Personnel of the Distribution Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B) Central Committee of the CPSU (b).

In 1933–1934 - Head of the Personnel Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.

In 1933-1937 - a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. In 1933-1934, he was a candidate; in 1934-1937, he was a member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.

In 1934–1935 - Head of the Industrial and Transport Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.

In 1935–1936, he was Head of the Agricultural Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, 2nd secretary of the Kharkov Regional Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.

From October 1936 to May 1937 - Head of the Personnel Department of the GUGB NKVD - NKVD of the USSR. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 1 convocation .

In 1937–1938, Lytvyn served as the head of the IV (Secret Political) Department of the Main Directorate of the State Security Committee of the NKVD of the USSR , in May – June 1937 he signed the Stalinist death lists ^[1] .

From January 20, 1938 - Head of the NKVD Directorate for the Leningrad Region . This period was marked by the entry into the special troika , created by order of the NKVD of the USSR of 30.07.1937 No. 00447 ^[2] and active participation in the Stalinist repressions ^[3] .

In 1938, 20,769 people were shot in Leningrad ^[4] . A grim joke appeared in the Leningrad Chekists: “Under Zakovsky there were flowers, and under Litvin there were berries” ^[5] .

NI Yezhov proposed to appoint M. I. Litvin as his first deputy and chief of the GUGB NKVD of the USSR, but Joseph Stalin was held by L. P. Beria for this post. From that moment on, Yezhova’s career went downhill. In the autumn of 1938, as the closest protege of Yezhov , Lytvyn was hit. ^[6]

In the denunciation of the chief of the UNKVD of the Ivanovo region, V. P. Zhuravlev , addressed personally to Stalin , Lytvyn was named among the NKVD employees who covered the " enemies of the people ", in particular, P. P. Postyshev ^[7] . After a day’s telephone conversation with Yezhov, Litvin had to leave for Moscow in the evening. November 12, 1938 an hour before the train departed, he shot himself in his apartment. This fact in the NKVD tried to hide: Litvin was buried secretly. An official order for removal from office was issued on November 14th.

On January 10, 1939, he was mentioned in a letter from the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) to the regional party leadership, the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, the heads of the UNKVD about the need for torture: . True, later in practice, the method of physical impact was banned by scoundrels by Zakovsky , Litvin, Ouspensky, and others ... ” ^[8] .

• December 22, 1936 - Senior State Security Major ;
• January 20, 1938 - Commissioner of State Security 3rd rank .

• Order of Lenin on July 22, 1937;
• Medal "XX years of the Red Army" on February 22, 1938;
• Sign "Honorary Worker of the Cheka — GPU (XV)” dated May 9, 1938.

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• V. Abramov Jews in the KGB. Executioners and victims. Moscow, Yauza - Eksmo, 2005;
• Lozitsky V.S. Polіtbyuro Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine: history, individuals, Stosunki (1918-1991), Kiev, Genesis, 2005.

• Handbook of the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991
• Biography options on the site Chronos
• Alexander N. Yakovlev Archive - Almanac «Russia. XX Century ”- Biographical Dictionary