Viktor Abakumov

Viktor Abakumov
Abakumov in the 1940s
Born24 April 1908 (1908-04-24)
Died19 December 1954 (1954-12-20) (aged 46)
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
ChildrenIgor Smirnov
Espionage activity
AllegianceSoviet Union
Service branch
RankColonel general

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.


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