Izrail Moiseyevich Leplevsky (Russian: Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский; 1894 - July 28, 1938) was the head of the GPU. He was part of the Intelligence Service and Secret police apparatus in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR from June 14, 1937 to January 25, 1938. His brother Gregory Leplevsky also worked in senior positions in the Soviet Union, including as Prosecutor of the USSR.
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1894 Brest, Belarus
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28 July 1938 (aged 44) Moscow, Russia
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