File:Sergei Mikhailovich Lenintsev (Chin. name- Khou Mintsi)- Soviet OGPU-NKVD Agent-Officer.jpg

English: Lenintsev, Sergei Mikhailovich (Ленинцев, Сергей Михайлович) served in the INO, NKVD in Manchuria and China proper. He was born Khou Mintsi (Хоу Минци) an orphan in present-day Shaanxi province in 1905. He arrived in Vladivostok, then Moscow in 1927 and began studying at the KUTV in that year. He finished his studies at KUTV in 1930. In Shanghai, he worked as an illegal using many names and forged documents and passports (May 1930 to late 1931 -1932) with the task of re-establishing links with Shanghai Chinese CP leaders and CP union leaders in hiding after the Shanghai Massacre that began April 12, 1927. In Manchuria, Lenintsev served with the Transbaikal units of the INO, NKVD. His daughter (from Irkutsk) helped to write many of the circa 2010-2016 newspaper articles about his life and exploits. Perhaps there were only two (articles) that I know of, perhaps more. It was said that Lenintsev was a very affable and likeable person and for that reason, he survived (despite being incarcerated and tortured for over a year) the purges during the Great Terror (1936-1939). Lenintsev served on many many secret missions for the USSR that he will never get credit for (per his daughter). In 1968, at the height of the tensions between China and USSR, Lenintsev was sacked from his job. Many years later, his daughter explained it as "вот социализм." Photo was scanned February 12, 2018 by Nina Sergeevich Lenintsev, Lenintsev's daughter. She sent to J. Chang the jpeg of his photo from Irkutsk or Chita, Russia in or arounf 2018-2019. Nina Lenintsev gave J. Chang permission to use and upload the photo of the Soviet spy, Sergei Lenintsev.

Additionslly, per the Russian copyright of 1993 law extending to Soviet/USSR books, documents or photos have a copyright to the owner of 50 years. This photo was taken in the 1930s, thus copyright ended at least by Dec. 31, 1989 (if taken in 1939, Dec. 31).

See Russian Copyright Law of 1993 for Soviet documents and pictures (below)

Url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Russia

The Copyright Law of 1993[edit source] Implementation Act for the Copyright Law of 1993[edit source]

The implementation act for the new copyright law, law no. 5352-1 of July 9, 1993,[95] stated that the copyright provisions from the 1991 Fundamentals were invalidated. It also stated that the new copyright law applied to all works on which the 50-year term for copyrights and neighbouring rights had not yet elapsed in 1993.[96]