Leonid Yulianovich Belakhov (Russian: Леонид Юлианович Белахов, June 9, 1907 – June 9, 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 program and of troops and fuel for the beginning of the offensive against the Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR. Biography Arctic exploration 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 (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 and the logistics of the Arctic exploration programs. The agency was at that time headed by Otto Schmidt. Belakhov continued as the political chief under Ivan Papanin, the new chief of CDNSR after Otto Schmidt's resignation from the agency's leadership in 1939. World War II In 1940, Belakhov was appointed 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, the deputy head of the government and a stalwart of Soviet politics. The projects included the organization of transportation of war aid to the USSR from the U.S. through the Lend-Lease program, supply of fuel and transportation of troops for the Battle of Stalingrad. Family Belakhov was married to Maria Belakhova, a writer and educator known for her work in children's literature and education in the Soviet Union, mentorship of many of the country's prominent children's writers, and her own works. References Mikoyan, Anastas I. "It Was Thus: Memoirs of Anastas Mikoyan.". Trans. Katherine T. O’Connor and Diana L. Burgin. Madison, CT: Sphinx Press, 1988. . Valentin Akuratov "On New Routes". GlavSevMorPut Press, USSR, 1941. John McCannon "Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939". Oxford University Press, USA, 1998. . Aleksey Shahurin "Wings Of Victory". Politizdat, USSR, 1990. External links Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route https://web.archive.org/web/20110703055647/http://rusarchives.ru/secret/842.shtml http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/85406/Na_novyh_trassah.html http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/mikoyan/04.html http://militera.lib.ru/h/kymanev_ga2/04.html http://www.razumei.ru/files/others/pdf/Shahurin_kryliya_pobedy.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20120321143640/http://www.melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/php/index.php?section=pol&page=meetHome&id=4335&orderBy=name http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%96%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0/1943 http://lost-empire.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2594&Itemid= http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBRecID=8492335&v3=1&SEQ=20110319105118&PID=g7NP7WoxZsTyo8aFeo21sg80 http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBRecID=7168098&v3=1&SEQ=20110319105121&PID=uptueB-dklggj4OOWRc9El_C http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBRecID=7127316&v3=1&SEQ=20110319105222&PID=bllm4jITr11A_ssxWJJ-zWLx http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBRecID=8080655&v3=1&SEQ=20110319105125&PID=yT7MB11wossxrE22TUGZU8gW http://generals.dk/general/Belakhov/Leonid_Iulianovich/Soviet_Union.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204657/http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/10306.asp http://english.ruvr.ru/2008/02/26/179328.html http://english.ruvr.ru/2007/12/19/168522.html http://murmanarchiv.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170:2010-04-21-06-11-22&catid=38:the-great-patriotic-war-on-the-kola-north&Itemid=82 1907 births 1975 deaths Military personnel from Vinnytsia People from Vinnitsky Uyezd Communist Party of the