military officer
Viktor Abakumov.
head of SMERSH, Russian Minister of State Security (1946–1951)
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About Viktor Abakumov
Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov was a high-level Soviet security official who from 1943 to 1946 was the head of SMERSH in the 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.
Everything about Viktor Abakumov →- Occupation
- military officer, politician
- Position held
- minister for State Security, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
- Born
- April 11, 1908, 1908
- Died
- December 19, 1954