About Alfons Noviks
Lived 1908 – 1996 (aged 88). Alfons Noviks was a Russian and Latvian politician.
Alfons Noviks (; February 13, 1908 – March 12, 1996) was a Latvian Soviet state security official and politician.
Biography Noviks was born in village, Mihailova Parish, Ludza county (now Mērdzene Parish, Ludza Municipality) the family of a small-landowner farmer. Already in the 1920s, he was recruited into the work of the Soviet intelligence services. He was expelled from the Aglona Gymnasium in 1926 for his communist activities. He studied at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the University of Latvia, without graduating.
After the occupation of Latvia in June 1940, Noviks was appointed head of the State Security Department of the Ministry of the Interior and a member of the collaborationist People's Saeima.
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Who was Alfons Noviks?
Latvian KGB officer and Soviet politician
When was Alfons Noviks born?
Alfons Noviks was born on 13 February 1908 in Mērdzene Parish.
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Alfons Noviks died on 12 March 1996 in Riga.
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Alfons Noviks was a politician.
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Alfons Noviks was Russian and Latvian.
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