Mikhail Plisetski

Mikhail Emmanuilovich (Mendelevich) Plisetski (; 1899 — 1938) was a Soviet diplomat. Biography Mikhail Plisetski was born in Gomel to the Lithuanian Jewish family of Mendel Plisetski (1869–30 June 1930) and his wife Sima (née Markovskaya; 1868–1939). In 1918, Plisetski was in the army and participated in Civil War in Russia. He joined the Communist Party the following year. After the civil war, Plisetski studied at the Economic Institute and worked in the Commissariats of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. In 1932–1936, he headed the Soviet coal mines at Barentsburg on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen where he managed the coal concessions (trust "Arctic-carbon"). He also served as the Consul General of the USSR to the island.