Yan Karlovich Berzin
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Yan Karlovich Berzin was a Latvian and Soviet communist politician and military intelligence officer.
Soviet stamp of Yan Berzin
Photo of Berzin after his arrest by the NKVD in 1937
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
Yan Karlovich Berzin
…after the Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion in March 1921. Promoted to head of the Red Army's Fourth Bureau (military intelligence), the GRU, he served from 1920 to 1935. Among his agents was the prominent German spy Richard Sorge. He was dismissed in 1935, and served for a year in the Far…
Showpiece of exhibition dedicated to 80th anniversary of Russian foreign intelligence service