Viktor Abakumov
Viktor Abakumov | |
|---|---|
Виктор Абакумов | |
Abakumov in the 1940s | |
| Minister of State Security | |
| In office 4 May 1946 – 14 July 1951 | |
| Preceded by | Vsevolod Merkulov |
| Succeeded by | Sergei Ogoltsov |
| Head of SMERSH | |
| In office 14 April 1943 – 4 May 1946 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 April 1908 |
| Died | 19 December 1954 (aged 46) |
| Party | All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1930–1951) |
| Children | Igor Smirnov |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1921–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1951) |
| Branch/service | Red Army OGPU Gulag SMERSH MGB |
| Years of service | 1921–1951 |
| Rank | Colonel general |
| Battles/wars | |
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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 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.