Vyacheslav Zof

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof (Russian: Вячеслав Иванович Зоф; 6 January 1890 – 20 June 1937) was a Soviet military figure and statesman of Czech descent.

During World War I, Zof worked as a fitter at an arms factory in Sestroretsk, where he was in charge of the Bolshevist underground.

[1] In July 1917, he prepared fake identity papers for Vladimir Lenin and organized his move from Petrograd to Razliv at the request of the RSDLP Central Committee.

Between December 1924 and 1926, Zof was the commander of the naval forces and member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR.

In 1937, he was arrested and sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on June 19 on accounts of being involved in an "anti-Soviet terrorist organisation".

Vyacheslav Zof in 1917
Vyacheslav Zof as navy commander