Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov (russian: Амаяк Захарович Кобулов; 1906–1955) was a Soviet politician and member of the Soviet security (

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NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

) and police apparatus during and briefly after the

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years, as was his older brother

Bogdan Kobulov Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov (russian: Богда́н Заха́рович Кобу́лов; 1 March 1904 – 23 December 1953) served as a senior member of the Soviet Union , Soviet security- and police-apparatus during the rule of Joseph Stalin. A ...

. In the history of Soviet espionage he is noted for his stint in

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as chief of the

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Foreign Branch's ''

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'' from September 1939 until June 1941. While in Berlin, in August 1940, he recruited a Latvian journalist, Orest Berlinks (codenamed by the Soviets "Litseist"), who, in fact, was used by the

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as a channel of disinformation and might have played a role in solidifying Stalin's belief that

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did not intend to attack the USSR in the spring of 1941. From July 1941 to January 1945, he was NKVD chief in

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. In 1944, as People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, he made administrative and logistical arrangements for the reception of the

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in Uzbekistan. He was arrested in 1953, sentenced to death on October 1, 1954, and shot on February 26, 1955.Кобулов Амаяк Захарович
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