Richard Sorge was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was "Ramsay" (Рамза́й).
Sorge in 1940
House in Sabunchi, Azerbaijan, in which Sorge lived from 1895 to 1898
Sorge (left) and chemist Erich Correns during World War I in 1915
Sorge in hospital after his injury during the First World War
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 military intelligence agency of the newly established Russian Federation until 7 May 1992 when it was dissolved and the Russian GRU took over its activities.
Showpiece of exhibition dedicated to 80th anniversary of Russian foreign intelligence service