Lazar Berenzon

Lazar Berenzon
Native name	Лазарь Израилевич Берензон
Birth name	Lazar Izrailevich Berenzon
Born	12 August 1898[1] Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	1956 (aged 57–58) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Buried	Donskoye Cemetery
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service / branch	NKVD
Years of service	1918–1946
Rank	Major general
Awards	Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner of Labour (2x) Order of the Red Star (2x) Medal "For Labour Valour" Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Honoured Worker of the Worker-Peasant Militia [ru]

Major-General Lazar Izrailevich Berenzon (Russian: Ла́зарь Изра́илевич Бе́рензон; 12 August 1898 – 1956) was a Soviet military commander of the Soviet security services, principally the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, or the NKVD. He served with the state's security organs for almost thirty years, rising to the rank of major general and overseeing the NKVD's financial affairs on major prison labour projects, including the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the Baikal–Amur Mainline. Between 1940 and 1941, he was deputy head of the entire Gulag system.^[2]