Lev Karakhan Lev Karakhan Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan ("Karakhanian") Armenian Կարախանյան Լեւոն Միքայելի, Russian Лев Михайлович Карахан (20 January 1889, Tiflis – 20 September 1937, Moscow) was an ethnic Armenian-born Russian revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. A member of the RSDLP from 1904. At first a Menshevik, he joined the Bolsheviks in May 1917. In October 1917, he was member of the Revolutionary Military Council; then served as secretary of the Soviet delegation at the Brest-Litovsk peace talks together with Leon Trotsky and Adolph Joffe. In 1918-1920 and 1927–1934, he was the Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. In 1919, he issued a
Lev Zinder family (without Lev Rafailovich) moved from town to town: Kirov, Sevetek, Vladimir. In 1944 they returned to Leningrad and Lev Zinder got the medal for Victory over Germany. Later, since 1945 till 1995 Lev Zinder taught at Leningrad State University and on 23 August he died. He was buried at Serafim’s cemetery. Lev Rafailovich Zinder famous scientific proceedings: Lev Zinder Lev Rafailovich Zinder (8 January 1904 - 23 August 1995) was Russian linguist in German philology. Lev Zinder was born in 1904 in Kiev. When he was eight, he entered the third gymnasium in Kiev, but finished only six forms