Arkadiy Kiselyov

Arkady Leontiiovych Kiselev (Ukrainian: Аркадій Леонтійович Кисельов; 1880 in Kiev – 22 September 1938, in Kiev) was a politician of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, serving as its Prosecutor General from 1935 to 1936.

Life
He was born into a family of workers. He graduated from a city school and received a secondary education.

A member of the RSDLP(B) since 1902, he took part in the revolutionary movement, was arrested in 1902 and 1904, and went abroad in 1904.

He was born Aaron Kesler Lazarevic and early in his life lived in the United States of America. He returned with his family to Russia in 1917.

Since 1921, he has been working in the party and economic spheres in the Chelyabinsk province and the Donetsk basin.

In 1929-1930, he was the head of the Stalinist District Control Commission of the CP(B)U-RSU in Donbas.

Until January 1934, he was the secretary of the Party Board of the Central Control Commission of the CP(B)U.

From May 26, 1934, to January 1935, he was People's Commissar of Supply of the Ukrainian SSR.