Amayak Zaharovich Kobulov

Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov (; 1906–1955) was a Soviet politician and member of the Soviet security (OGPU-NKVD) and police apparatus during and briefly after the Joseph Stalin years, as was his older brother Bogdan Kobulov.

Early career Amayak Kobulov was a tailor's son, born in Tiflis. He served in the Red Army in 1921–1923, then worked as an accountant. In 1927, he joined the Georgian OGPU as an accountant in its finance department. During the Great Purge, in 1937, Lavrentiy Beria promoted him to a position in the Main Political Directorate of the Georgian NKVD, then in 1938, acting head of the NKVD in the Abkhaz republic, which meant that he was in charge of security around Stalin's holiday villa, in Gagra.

While in Berlin, in August 1940, he recruited a Latvian journalist, Orest Berlinks (codenamed by the Soviets "Litseist"), who, in fact, was used by the Germans as a channel of disinformation.

Later career Recalled from Moscow after the German invasion, Kobulov was NKVD chief in Uzbekistan from July 1941 to January 1945. In 1944, as People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, he made administrative and logistical arrangements for the reception of the deported Crimean Tatars in Uzbekistan.

In 1945, Kobulov was recalled to Moscow, as deputy head of the NKVD's Main Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees (GUPVI), and simultaneously he was made deputy head of the NKVD department charged with obtaining intelligence on developing a nuclear bomb. In 1947, the Soviet authorities from a former Gestapo officer that agent 'Liseist' had been a plant, but this discovery had no apparent effect on Kobulov's career. In 1950, he was promoted to head of GUPVI, and from 1951, he was deputy head of Gulag, the department that ran the labour camps.

Kobulov was sentenced to death on October 1, 1954, and shot on February 26, 1955.