Kobulov
The surname Kobulov may refer to two USSR statesmen and state security officers who were brothers:
Bogdan 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 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]
He held a series of senior posts in the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, and was the most trusted henchman of the NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria. As head of the Investigative Branch of the USSR NKVD from December 22, 1938, till September 4, 1939, he was one of the major organizers of the political terror.
At the fall of Lavrentiy Beria, Kobulov was arrested along with his boss on June 27, 1953; he was convicted on multiple charges, including espionage, and sentenced to death on December 23, 1953.
Amyak Kobulov
Bogdan Kobulov's junior brother, Amyak Zaharovich Kobulov (Амаяк Захарович Кобулов) (1906-1955), was also an NKVD officer. In the history of the Soviet espionage, he is noted for his stint in Berlin as chief of the Main Directorate of State Security Foreign Branch's rezidentura - from September 1939 till June 1941. In August 1940, he recruited a supposedly well-connected Latvian journalist Orest Berlinks (codenamed by the Soviets "Litseist"), who, in fact, was used by the Germans as a channel of disinformation and might have been instrumental in cementing Stalin's conviction that Hitler did not intend to attack the USSR in 1941.[2]
From July 1941 till January 1945, he was NKVD chief in Uzbekistan; he was sentenced to death on October 1, 1954, and shot on February 2, 1955.[3]
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.[4]
References
- ^ "yezh-pics.html". www.geocities.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ^ Большие братья Novaya Gazeta, 20 Dec 2010.
- ^ Кобулов Амаяк Захарович
- ^ 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," http://www.cidct.org.ua/en/studii/15-16/4.html. Accessed 19 July 2010.
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