Moisei Uritsky

Moisei Uritsky
Моисей Урицкий
Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky
Chief of Cheka of Petrograd city
In office
March 10, 1918 – August 30, 1918
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byGleb Bokii
People's Commissar of the North Commune
Personal details
Born(1873-01-02)January 2, 1873
Cherkasy, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedAugust 30, 1918(1918-08-30) (aged 45)
Petrograd, Russian SFSR
Political partyRSDLP (1898–1903)
Mensheviks (1903–1917)
RCP (1917–1918)
Alma materSt. Vladimir Imperial University of Kiev (1897)
OccupationChekist, political activist, and politician
ProfessionLawyer
Uritsky on a 1933 Soviet stamp

Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky (Ukrainian: Мойсей Соломонович Урицький; Russian: Моисей Соломонович Урицкий; 2 January [O.S. 14 January] 1873 – 30 August 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was the chief of the Cheka secret police of the Petrograd Soviet. Uritsky was assassinated by Leonid Kannegisser, a military cadet, who was executed shortly afterwards.