Viktor Abakumov

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Head of SMERSH, Russian Minister of State Security (1946-1951)

PoliticiansLived 1908 to 1954 · aged 46

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Awards 12

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of the Red Banner

Order of the Red Star

Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"

Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)

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ChildIgor Smirnov

Connected to Viktor 6

Genrikh YagodaAlso won Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)

Rodion MalinovskyAlso won Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Andrei TupolevAlso won Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

Dmitriy UstinovAlso won Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Pavel BatitskyAlso won Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

Vasili BlokhinAlso won Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)

About this person

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.