Lev Kamenev Lev Kamenev Lev Borisovich Kamenev (born Leo Rosenfeld or Lev Borisovich Rozenfeld; – 25 August 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bubnov. Kamenev was the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky. He served briefly as the equivalent of the first head of state of Soviet Russia in 1917, and from 1923-24 as acting Premier in the last year of Vladimir Lenin's life. Joseph Stalin viewed him as a source of discontent and
Lev Karpov Central Chemical Laboratory (now Karpow-Institute for Physical Chemistry) in Moscow in 1918 and was appointed several high-ranking positions in the soviet administration. He is buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Leonid Krasin spoke at his funeral suggesting that science would be able to restore the dead back to life: Lev Karpov Lev Iakovlevich Karpov (April 18 (30), 1879, Kiev; January 6, 1921, Moscow) was a Russian Chemist and Bolshevik revolutionary. Karpov, the son of a sales clerk, became a member of the Communist Party in 1897. He studied chemistry at the Moscow Higher Technical School graduating in 1910. After moving