Alexei Ivanovich Hegay was a Soviet political operative in North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

 and leader of the Soviet Korean faction within the early political structure of North Korea. Hegay committed suicide in Pyongyang

Pyongyang

Pyongyang is the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea, and the largest city in the country. Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River and, according to preliminary results from the 2008 population census, has a population of 3,255,388. The city was...

 and was replaced as leader by Pak Chang Ok

Pak Chang Ok

Pak Chang Ok was a North Korean official and was General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea).Pak was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the party, with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Russia, after the suicide of their first leader, Alexei Ivanovich Hegay...

.

Early life

He was born in Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

, then Russian Empire, some 30 km from Chinese border, to parents both teaching in schools for Korean pupils.

Appearance in pop culture

Hegay appeared as a character in the 2006 South Korean drama series Seoul 1945

Seoul 1945

-Details:*Title: 서울 1945 / Seoul 1945*Genre: War, Daeha drama*Episodes: 70*Broadcast network: KBS1*Broadcast period: 2006-Jan-07 to 2006-Sept-10*Air time: Saturdays and Sundays 21:30-Synopsis:...

, where he was portrayed by the South Korean actor Song Yong Tae.

See also

• Koryo-saram
  Koryo-saram
  Koryo-saram is the name which ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet states use to refer to themselves. Approximately 500,000 ethnic Koreans reside in the former Soviet Union, primarily in the now-independent states of Central Asia. There are also large Korean communities in southern Russia , the...
  
  
• Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
  Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
  Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union, originally conceived in 1926, initiated in 1930, and carried through in 1937, was the first mass transfer of an entire nationality based on their ethnicity to be committed by the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Workers' Party of Korea
  Workers' Party of Korea
  The Workers' Party of Korea is the ruling Communist party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , commonly known as North Korea. It is also called the Korean Workers' Party...