Shmarya Yehuda Leib Medalia

Shmarya Yehuda-Leib Medalia (Shemaryahu Medalia, Russian: Шмер-Лейб Янкелевич Медалье; 1872 – April 26, 1938) was the Lubavitcher chief rabbi of Moscow between 1933 and 1938. He was sentenced to death and shot in 1938 during The Great Terror in the Soviet Union.

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