Leonid Zakovsky

Leonid Zakovsky
People's Commissars of Internal Affairs of the Byelorussian SSR
In office
15 July 1934 – 10 December 1934
Preceded byPosition established (himself as the Chairman of the OGPU of the Byelorussian SSR)
Succeeded byIzrail Leplevsky
Personal details
Born
Henriks Štubis

1894
Brest-Litovsk, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died(1938-08-29)August 29, 1938 (aged 43–44)
Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyRSDLP (b) (1913–1918)
All-Union Communist Party (b) (1918–1938)

Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky (Latvian: Leonīds Zakovskis; Russian: Леони́д Миха́йлович Зако́вский; originally named Henriks Štubis; 1894 – August 29, 1938) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and NKVD Commissar 1st Class of State Security (equivalent to the Soviet Red Army rank of Komandarm 1st rank).