Mikhail Kobetsky
Mikhail Kobetsky (14 October 1881 in Odessa – 28 April 1937 in Moscow) was a Soviet politician and diplomat. From 1919 the head of the publishing house of the magazine Kommunisticheskii Internatsional in Petrograd. From 1922 he was a member of ECCI, the director of the Petrograd Department (Bureau) of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI). In 1921 he entered the Secretariat of ECCI. In 1924-27 he was the Polpred of the Soviet Union to Estonia (1924), Denmark (1924–33), Greece (1934–37) and Albania (1935–37).[1] From January 1933 he was the referent of ECCI for the Scandinavian countries. He was arrested during one of the purges and executed.[2]
References
- ^ Кобецкий Михаил Вениаминович (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
- ^ http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1920/09/0930-kobetsky-eccifrainares.pdf
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- 1881 births
- 1937 deaths
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Soviet diplomats
- Executive Committee of the Communist International
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Albania
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Denmark
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Greece
- Great Purge victims from Ukraine
- People from Odessa
- Russian people executed by the Soviet Union
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Estonia