Matvei Davidovich Berman was a Soviet security officer and the head of the Gulag prison camp system from 1932 to 1937.
Berman in 1938
Berman together with GULAG camp chiefs in May 1934
Naftaly Frenkel (far right) at the White Sea–Baltic Canal works in July 1932 during the visit of Matvei Davidovich Berman (front, second from right), head of the Gulag system