Abram Slutsky

Abram Slutsky
Абра́м Слу́цкий
Slutsky wearing his Orders of the Red Banner
Head of the 7th Department of GUGB-NKVD
In office
May 21 1935 – February 17 1938
Preceded byArtur Artuzov
Succeeded bySergey Spigelglas
Personal details
BornJuly 1898
Died17 February 1937 (aged 39)
PartyRussian Communist Party (1917–1938)
Military service
Allegiance Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1920–1922)
Soviet Union (1922–1937)
Branch/serviceImperial Russian Army
Red Army
Cheka
GPU
OGPU
NKVD
RankCommissar of State Security 2nd rank

Abram Aronovich Slutsky (Russian: Абра́м Аро́нович Слу́цкий; July 1898 – 17 February 1938) was a Soviet intelligence officer who headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), then part of the NKVD, from May 1935 to 17 February 1938, when he was allegedly poisoned.