Kobulov
Bogdan Kobulov (Богда́н Заха́рович Кобулов) (1 March 1904 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and member of the Soviet security and police apparatus during and briefly after the Stalin years.
Kobulov was born in Tbilisi the son of an ethnic Armenian tailor. He joined the OGPU in 1931 and became one of Beria's closest associates. He was put in charge of deporting several national groups including the Crimean Tatars.
He was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (18th & 19th Congresses), and was Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the second convocation. [1]
After the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939, Kobulov was assigned as Counsellor to the Soviet Embassy in Berlin for the purpose of organizing and overseeing espionage work in Germany. As part of these operations, he served as a controller for OGPU agents forcibly recruited among the ethnic Germans who were repatriated to Germany from the Soviet-occupied Polish zone in early 1940.[2]
At the fall of Lavrentiy Beria, Kobulov was arrested and eventually tried and executed, along with several other of Beria's lieutenants.
Amyak Kobulov
Bogdan Kobulov's brother, Amyak Zaharovich Kobulov (Амаяк Захарович Кобулов) (1906-1955) was also an NKVD officer. He became NKVD chief in Uzbekistan and was shot in 1955.
As People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, Amyak Kobulov was involved in the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, wherein he made administrative and logistical arrangements for the reception of the deported population in Uzbekistan.[3]
References
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- ^ "Note des Auswärtigen Amtes an die Sowjetregierung vom 21. Juni 1941," Monatshefte für Auswärtige Politik, 8. Jahrgang, Heft 7 (Juli 1941): 553.
- ^ Gulnara Bekyrova, "No Provision Was Made to Supply the Special Settlers with Clothes and Shoes, and Were Like Destitute Rejects, Though Many of Them Wore Orders and Medals," [1]. Accessed 19 July 2010.
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