Leonid Yulianovich Belakhov (Russian: Леонид Юлианович Белахов, 1907–1975) was a general and a senior Soviet administrator at the time of World War II, and managed several strategic logistical programs that influenced the course of the war, including the transportation of war aid from the US through the Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...

 program and of troops and fuel the beginning of the offensive against the German invasion of the USSR.

Biography

In 1937, after finishing the air force command academy, Belakhov was appointed head of political administration of the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route

Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route

The Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route , also known as Glavsevmorput, was a Soviet government organization in charge of the naval Northern Sea Route, established in January 1932 and dissolved in 1964.-History:The organization traces its roots to AO Komseveroput, a shipping company...

 (GlavSevMorPut), one of the largest Soviet agencies, governing the Soviet territory north of the Arctic Circle and east of the Ural mountains. In this role, Belakhov oversaw the internal affairs of the agency. The agencies was then headed by Otto Schmidt

Otto Schmidt

Otto Yulyevich Schmidt was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR , and member of the Communist Party.-Biography:He was born in Mogilev, Russian Empire...

. Belakhov continued as the political chief under Ivan Papanin

Ivan Papanin

Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin was a Russian Polar Explorer, Scientist,Counter Admiral, twice Hero of the Soviet Union awarded nine Orders of Lenin...

, the new chief of CDNSR after Schmidt's resignation in 1939.

In 1940, Belakhov was appointed as the head of political administration and deputy minister of the Soviet Merchant Fleet. In this capacity, Belakhov was commissioned to manage several key projects, reporting to Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was an Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the rules of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev....

, the deputy head of the government and a stalwart of Soviet politics: the organization of the transportation of war aid to the USSR from the U.S. through the Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...

 program, of the supplies of fuel and troops to the front.

For his accomplishments, Belakhov was awarded the Order of Lenin and numerous other awards.

After the war, Belakhov oversaw Soviet aircraft maintenance and production.

Belakhov was married to Maria Andreevna Belakhova , a writer and educator and a chair for children's literature of the Soviet Guild of Writers.

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  Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route
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