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September 25, 1938 he was shot. The same fate befell brother Daniel, who also worked for the NKVD, only in Tiraspol. interestingly, Lev Zadov-Zinkovsky appears in the novel of Alexey Tolstoy “purgatory”. And stands there as a cruel executioner, performing the most bloody orders Makhno.

Lev Zadov, founding member and chief of the Kontrrazvedka. In February 1919, the insurgents entered into an alliance with the Red Army, integrating themselves into Pavel Dybenko's 1st Zadneprovsk Ukrainian Soviet Division, in return for armaments.

The Zadov brothers, Lev and Daniilo (see libcom biography of Lev Zadov) were shot in September 1938 and Viktor Belash (see libcom biography) perished in the same year. Among other Makhnovists who were shot was Grigory Seregin (1884 - 1938) who had been born into a peasant family in Kaluga province and who had worked as a fitter in Gulyai Polye.

Lev Zadov. Short biography of Lev Zadov, anarchist communist, metalworker and (in)famous organiser of the Makhnovist intelligence corps. Author. Nick Heath. Submitted by Battlescarred on August 18, 2008. Lev Zadov was born on April 11th 1893 in the small Jewish farming settlement of Veselaya in southern Ukraine.

Lev Mykolaiovych Zadov , also known by his nom de guerre Lev Zinkovskyi , was chief of military intelligence of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine and later an operative of the Joint State Political Directorate .

Lev Zadov joined Nestor Makhno's guerillas in August 1918 and quickly became chief of military intelligence of Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine. According to numerous eyewitnesses, he was member of Makhno's inner circle and friend of Makhno's wife.

Lev Zadov Military unit The 1st Donetsk Corps was a military formation of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine , it was created on 1 September 1919 and existed until 1920.