# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lev-mekhlis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:35:22.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lev-mekhlis"
name: "Lev Mekhlis"
slug: "lev-mekhlis"
description: "Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis was a Soviet politician and a prominent officer in the Red Army from 1937 to 1942. As a senior political commissar, he became one of the main Stavka representatives on the Eastern Front (1941–1945) during World War II, being involved successively with five to seven Soviet fronts. Despite his fervent political engagement and loyalty to the Communist Party, various Soviet leaders, including Joseph Stalin, criticized and reprimanded Mekhlis for incompetent military leadership during World War II."
tagline: "Soviet politician (1889-1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1889-01-13"
deathDate: "1953-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2727272727272727
  historical:           17.59428266666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump