Israel Moiseevich Leplevsky was the head of the GPU in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then People"s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from June 14, 1937 to January 25, 1938.
Career
Born into a Jewish family in Brest-Litovsk, Grodno Governorate, Leplevsky received a home education and worked afterwards in a hat shop, and in a pharmacy warehouse. In 1914 he was enrolled as a conscript in the Russian army and served on the Turkish front from October 1914 till June 1917. He was arrested on April 26, 1938, and on 28 July he was shot according a sentence passed by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Politics
In March 1917, Leplevsky became active in the Bolshevik party in Tbilisi. Afterwards he made a career in the Soviet secret service, the GPU, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, culminating in his appointment as People"s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from June 14, 1937 to January 25, 1938.
Membership
From June 1917 he was a member of the military organization of the RSDLP (Bolshevik) in Yekaterinoslav.