# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-korotkov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:01:42.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-korotkov"
name: "Aleksandr Korotkov"
slug: "aleksandr-korotkov"
description: "Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Korotkov was a Soviet intelligence officer and operative with the rank of major general. He became chief of foreign reconnaissance in the Soviet occupation zone in Germany in 1947 and chief of the KGB while he was stationed in East Germany in 1957. Korotkov was most notable as the intelligence officer who recruited Arvid Harnack in September 1940 and Harro Schulze-Boysen later in Berlin during the Nazi regime, effectively changing a resistance organisation who fought against Hitler into the espionage organisation known as the Red Orchestra. Korotkov was an associate of Ivan Serov."
tagline: "Russian intelligence operative (1909-1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AM_Korotkov_2025_stamp_of_Russia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1909-11-22"
deathDate: "1961-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.28
  momentum:             0.5597014925373135
  historical:           6.424305333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Коротков, Александр Михайлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "الكسندر كوروتكوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Michailowitsch_Korotkow"
    title: "Alexander Michailowitsch Korotkow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Mikhaylovich_Korotkov"
    title: "Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Korotkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC%D5%A5%D6%84%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D6%80_%D4%BF%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%BF%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%BE"
    title: "Ալեքսանդր Կորոտկով"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%88%E3%82%B3%E3%83%95"
    title: "アレクサンドル・コロトコフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Korotkow"
    title: "Aleksandr Korotkow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4234091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump