About Mikhail Kobetsky
Lived 1881 – 1937 (aged 55). Mikhail Kobetsky was a Russian diplomat and politician.
Mikhail Veniaminovich Kobetsky (14 October 1881, in Odessa – 28 April 1937, in Moscow) was a Soviet politician and diplomat. From 1919 the head of the publishing house of the magazine Kommunisticheskii Internatsional in Petrograd. From 1922 he was a member of ECCI, the director of the Petrograd Department (Bureau) of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI). In 1921 he entered the Secretariat of ECCI. In 1924–27 he was the Polpred of the Soviet Union to Estonia, Denmark (1924–33), Greece (1934–37) and Albania (1935–37). From January 1933 he was the referent of ECCI for the Scandinavian countries.
He was recalled to Moscow in 1937 and arrested during one of the purges and executed.
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Who was Mikhail Kobetsky?
Soviet diplomat (1881-1937)
When was Mikhail Kobetsky born?
Mikhail Kobetsky was born on 14 October 1881 in Odesa.
When did Mikhail Kobetsky die?
Mikhail Kobetsky died on 28 April 1937 in Moscow.
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Mikhail Kobetsky was a diplomat and politician.
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Mikhail Kobetsky was Russian.
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