Lev Leonidovich Dengov (Russian: Лев Леонидович Деньгов, Belarusian: Леў Леанідавіч Дзяньгоў, romanized: Lieǔ Lieanidavič Dzianhoǔ; born 6 June 1984) is a Russian-Belarusian entrepreneur and businessman.

[14] A prerequisite for creation of the Contact was the appeal of the leader of the Libyan National Army Khalifa Haftar with the Russian authorities.

Starting from 3 October, Dengov conducted negotiations with the Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, Fayez Sarraj, the Chairman of the Supreme State Council, Abdurahman Sewehli, the First Deputy Prime Minister Musa al-Koni, the Head of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor-General's Office, As- Sadiq As-Sur, and members of the government.

A meeting was held between Agila Saleh, speaker of the elected and sitting in Tobruk-based Parliament – House of Representatives of Libya, and with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation, S.V.

In September 2017, Dengov, in charge of the Contact Group, arranged a visit of the Vice-Prime-Minister of Government of National Accord, Ahmed Maiteeq to Russia.

Based on the results of the meetings, an agreement was reached on organizing a working visit of representatives of the Government of the National Consent and continuing the course on development of Russian-Libyan relations.

In mid-October of the same year, a visit was held by the Libyan delegation led by Deputy Minister of Transport Hisham Abdullah Abu Shkevat.

As a result of the negotiations organized with the Prime Minister of the New General National Congress of Libya Khalifa Al-Ghawil, two citizens and the crew members of the detained tanker “Mikhail Chebotarev” were returned to Russia.

However, in March 2016, the negotiation process for release of the remaining detained citizens was interrupted as a result of the formation of the UN-supported Government of National Accord led by Fayez Sarraj.

In October 2016, Dengov held negotiations with Sarraj, Chairman of the Supreme State Council Abdurahman Sewehli, First Deputy Prime Minister Musa al-Koni, head of the Investigative Committee under the Attorney General, As-Sadyk As-Sur, members of the government.

[19] As a result of the meetings and negotiations held in April 2017, the visit of the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and African countries to Tripoli M.L.

[20] Since September 2017, Dengov, at the instruction of the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also been engaged in the release of citizens of Belarus.

In February 2018, after long negotiations with the participation of Dengov, it managed to achieve the release of Belarusian citizen Vyacheslav Kachura in Libya, who had been detained there for six and a half years.

Upon completion of the operation to free the Belarusian doctors, Dengov was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.