Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov (Russian: Виктор Семёнович Абакумов; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1954) was a high-level Soviet security official who from 1943 to 1946 was the head of SMERSH in the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense, and from 1946 to 1951 of the Minister of State Security or MGB (ex-NKGB). He was removed from office and arrested in 1951 on charges of failing to investigate the Doctors' Plot. After the death of Joseph Stalin, Abakumov was tried for fabricating the Leningrad Affair, sentenced to death and executed in 1954.
Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov (Russian: Виктор Семёнович Абакумов; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1954) was a high-level Soviet security official who from...
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back to the MGB. The head of the agency throughout its existence was ViktorAbakumov, who rose to become Minister of State Security in the postwar years...
(MGB) by ViktorAbakumov. Abakumov had headed SMERSH from 1943 to 1946; his relationship with Beria involved close collaboration (since Abakumov owed his...
the Deputy Minister of State Security, who then reported to Minister ViktorAbakumov, who did not believe there was a plot although he and Ryumin were both...
Beria, who lost control of the police apparatus to a younger rival, ViktorAbakumov, while Merkulov was unemployed for over a year. On 25 April 1947, he...
Bulgarian Communist Party. Lev Shvartzman was arrested on 13 July 1951. ViktorAbakumov, head of the MGB, had been arrested the previous day. Both arrests...
the Red Army, Soviet Navy and NKVD troops, serving as a deputy to ViktorAbakumov. It was in this function that he founded the Ministry of Public Security...
Commissariats were renamed to Ministries. MGB – "Ministry of State Security" ViktorAbakumov (March 18, 1946 – July 14, 1951) Sergei Ogoltsov (July 14, 1951 – August...
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ISBN 5-93518-035-9 (in Russian) KGB Information Center from FAS.org Chebrikov, Viktor M., et al., eds. Istoriya sovetskikh organov gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti...
trial was held, beginning on 30 July 1946 and was presided over by ViktorAbakumov who sentenced him and eleven other senior officers from his army to...
with Strogov being arrested after the downfall of the head of SMERSH, ViktorAbakumov, and being interrogated about a series of missions he participated...
service worker. Between 1950 and 1951, he was the deputy of MGB head ViktorAbakumov. On March 5, 1953, MVD and MGB were merged into the MVD by Lavrenty...
with medicine. He was implicated as being part of a conspiracy with ViktorAbakumov. After the deaths of Stalin and Beria, Poskrebyshev was rehabilitated...
day becoming emperor of the world, or listening to his subordinate ViktorAbakumov and wondering: "...has the day come to shoot him yet?" The novel addresses...
supervised by Malenkov and Beria. Executions and purges were done by ViktorAbakumov and the MGB. The graves of the executed leaders of Leningrad were never...
part of the doctors' plot in 1951, in connection with the case of ViktorAbakumov, and spent 10 years in prison. After his release, he headed a biochemical...
justify us." This angered Stalin and embarrassed the police chief, ViktorAbakumov. He was sentenced to death, but instead of being shot, he had a meat...
then the head of the Lubyanka prison infirmary, and addressed to ViktorAbakumov, the Soviet minister of state security. In 1989, Wallenberg's personal...
Moscow. His recall was initiated by colonel Mikhail Ryumin, No. 2 to ViktorAbakumov in the Soviet Union's State Security. Ryumin intended to use Dolgun...
name was high on a list presented to Stalin by the chief of police, ViktorAbakumov, of people selected for arrest. He was accused of having "made attacks...
everyone approved of the plan. In Moscow, Soviet Interior Minister ViktorAbakumov argued that a new secret police force would be demonized by Western...
returned to the NKVD as a Directorate of Special Departments or UOO, with ViktorAbakumov as chief. UOO on every level was given much more power and a freer...
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