Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Levin a ranar 10 ga Janairu 1902 ga dangin manoma na ƙabilar Rasha a ƙauyen Antsir a Yeniseysk Governorate. Ya sauke karatu daga aji bakwai a shekara ta 1919. An kira Levin a cikin Red Army a 1921. A watan Disamba na shekarar 1922, ya kammala karatunsa daga Makarantar Sojojin Krasnoyarsk ta 26. Ya zama ƙaramin kwamandan a cikin 3rd Shock Regiment na Pacific Corps a Vladivostok. A cikin 1923, Levin ya shiga Makarantar Sojojin Vladivostok, ya kammala karatu a 1926. Ya zama kwamandan kwamandan da kwamandan kamfanin bindigogi a cikin 76th Rifle Regiment na 26th Rifle Division a Nikolsk-Ussurisky. Ya yi yaƙi a rikicin Sin da Soviet
na shekara ta 1929. An cire Levin a watan Afrilu 1932.