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'''Kobulov''' is a masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is '''Kobulova'''. Notable people with the surname include: |
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The surname '''Kobulov''' may refer to either of the two [[USSR]] statesmen and state security officers who are occasionally confused with one another and who were brothers: |
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* [[Amayak Kobulov]] (1906–1955), Soviet politician |
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==Bogdan Kobulov== |
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* [[Bogdan Kobulov]] (1904–1953), Soviet politician, brother of Amayak |
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'''Bogdan Kobulov''' (Богда́н Заха́рович Кобулов) (1 March 1904 – 23 December 1953) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] politician and member of the Soviet security and police apparatus during and briefly after the [[Stalin]] years. |
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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. |
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* [[Kabulov]] |
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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. |
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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 to September 4, 1939, he was one of the major organizers of the political terror. |
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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 and executed on December 23, 1953. |
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==Amayak Kobulov== |
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{{anchor|Amayak Kobulov}} |
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Bogdan Kobulov's younger brother, '''Amayak Zaharovich Kobulov''' (Амаяк Захарович Кобулов) (1906-1955), was also an NKVD officer. In the history of Soviet espionage he is noted for his stint in [[Berlin]] as chief of the [[Main Directorate of State Security]] Foreign Branch's ''[[Resident spy|rezidentura]]'' from September 1939 until June 1941. While in Berlin, in August 1940, he recruited a supposedly well-connected [[Latvians|Latvian]] journalist Orest Berlinks (codenamed by the Soviets "Litseist"), who, in fact, was used by the [[Nazi Germany|Germans]] as a channel of disinformation and might have been instrumental in cementing [[Stalin]]'s conviction that [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] did not intend to attack the USSR in 1941.<ref>[http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2010/gulag23/00.html Большие братья] ''[[Novaya Gazeta]]'', 20 Dec 2010.</ref> |
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From July 1941 to January 1945, he was NKVD chief in [[Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic|Uzbekistan]]. |
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In 1944, as People’s Commissar (minister) of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, he made administrative and logistical arrangements for the reception of the [[deportation of the Crimean Tatars|deported]] [[Crimean Tatars]] in Uzbekistan.<ref>Gulnara Bekyrova, [http://www.cidct.org.ua/en/studii/15-16/4.html "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"]</ref> |
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He was sentenced to death on October 1, 1954, and shot on February 2, 1955.<ref>[http://www.hrono.info/biograf/bio_k/kobulov.php Кобулов Амаяк Захарович]</ref> |
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== References == |
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> |
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| NAME =Kobulov, Bogdan |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1904 |
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| DATE OF DEATH = 1953 |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kobulov, Bogdan}} |
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[[Category:1904 births]] |
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[[Category:1953 deaths]] |
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[[Category:People from Tbilisi]] |
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[[Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members]] |
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[[Category:NKVD officers]] |
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[[Category:Soviet diplomats]] |
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[[Category:Soviet spies]] |
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[[ca:Bogdan Kobulov]] |
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[[de:Bogdan Kobulow]] |
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[[ja:ボグダン・コブロフ]] |
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[[pl:Bogdan Kobułow]] |
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[[ru:Кобулов, Богдан Захарович]] |
Latest revision as of 14:27, 27 July 2021
Kobulov is a masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Kobulova. Notable people with the surname include:
- Amayak Kobulov (1906–1955), Soviet politician
- Bogdan Kobulov (1904–1953), Soviet politician, brother of Amayak