Lev Shvartzman

Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartzman
Native name
Лев Леони́дович (Аронович) Шва́рцман
Born(1907-07-25)25 July 1907
Shpola, Zvenigorodsky Uyezd. Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Cherkasy Oblast, Zvenyhorodka Raion, Ukraine)
Died13 May 1955(1955-05-13) (aged 47)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
(now Russia)
Allegiance Soviet Union
BranchNKVD
Service years1937–1951
RankColonel
AwardsOrder of the Red Star

Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartzman (Russian: Лев Леони́дович (Аронович) Шва́рцман; 25 July 1907 – 13 May 1955) was a Soviet MGB officer, notorious for his brutality, who was executed for using torture to extract false confessions from prisoners. His victims included Marshal Blyukher, the Colonel general Grigory Shtern, the writer Isaac Babel and the theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold.

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