Main Intelligence Directorate, abbreviated GRU, was the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces until 1991. For a few months it was also the foreign milita
Showpiece of exhibition dedicated to 80th anniversary of Russian foreign intelligence service
Semyon Aralov
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Semyon Ivanovich Aralov was a Russian revolutionary, military commander and Soviet diplomat who served as the first head of the Soviet Red Army Intelligence Directorate and subsequently had a career i
Aralov in Ankara, Autochrome by Frédéric Gadmer, 1922
Mustafa Kemal's visit to Çay. From left to right: chief of staff of the Western Front Miralay Asim Bey (Gündüz), commander of the Western Front Mirliva Ismet Pasha (İnönü), unknown, military attaché of the Soviet Russia K.K. Zvonarev, ambassador of Soviet Russia S.I. Aralov, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, ambassador of Azerbaijan SSR Ibrahim Abilov, commander of First Army Mirliva Ali Ihsan Pasha (Sâbis), in the morning of 31 March 1922.