Leshchinsky (Nadab) Naum (Yakov) Abramovich

Born in 1902 in Krivoy Rog; Jewish; member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1923. In the early 1920s in Palestine; active figure in the Communist Party of Palestine, member of the Central Committee. From 1925 - referent of the Eastern Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. In 1931 he was expelled from Palestine. Recalled to Moscow. Head of the Methodology Office and professor at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. In 1937 - head of the schools sector of the Sverdlovsk District of Moscow. Lived in Moscow, Bolshaya Bronnaya Street, Building 6a, Apt. 50. Arrested on November 27, 1937. Sentenced by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the USSR on March 10, 1938, on charges of espionage and participation in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization, to capital punishment. Shot on 10.03.1938. Burial place: Moscow region, Kommunarka. Rehabilitated on 30.06.1956 by the Military Commission of the USSR Armed Forces.