Personal belongings of the Cheka employee L.B. Rivin

January 1 - July 3, 1991. USSR. Belongings of an employee of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission under the Council of People's Commissars for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, the United State Political Directorate under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR Leizer Borisovich Rivin: a personal photograph of a political convict (1908), his award document on the presentation of a breastplate for "merciless struggle against counter-revolution" (left), and his holster (right) with an honorary Mauser pistol for the tenth anniversary of the Cheka-OGPU organs. The exact date and place of the photo shoot have not been established. Igor Zotin/TASS