Dmitry Ilyich Leshchenko (Russian: Дми́трий Ильи́ч Лéщенко; 25 October 1876, Nikolaev, Kherson province – 9 November 1937, Leningrad) was a Russian revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, professor and one of the founders and first organizers of Soviet Cinema who served as first head of the All-Russian Photo and Cinematographic Department of the People's Commissariat for Education.
[1] During the 1905 Russian Revolution, he was a member of the "chemical group" created in December 1905 under the Central Committee of the RSDLP.
During this period, he was also the permanent secretary of the Bolshevik newspapers Volna, Vperyod, Echo, published in St. Petersburg, and worked with Vladimir Lenin on most days.
He was active participant in the February Revolution and served as the secretary of the editorial board Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies.
In 1917 he photographed Lenin in Razliv for a secret passport in the name of K.P Ivanov, a worker of a Sestroretsk plant.