№ 2454. On the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Intelligence Officers – Heroes. I. Grigulevich (1913–1988), A. Korotkov (1909–1961), V. Lyagin (1908–1943), N. Prokopyuk (1902–1975), N. Troyan (1921–2011), P. Fitin (1907–1971)

05.11.2025
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№ 3524 Москва “I. Grigulevich (1913–1988)”

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Joseph Grigulevich (1913–1988) was a Soviet intelligence agent who in after years became a prominent scientist specializing in Latin American studies.

Grigulevich was born on May 5, 1913, in Vilno of the Russian Empire. Since 1927, he was an active participant in the underground communist movement in the Baltic states. In 1933, he went to France, where he studied at the Paris Higher School of Social Sciences, then was sent to illegal party work through the International Organization for Assistance to the Fighters of the Revolution (MOPR) in Argentina. In September of 1936, the Central Committee of the Argentine Communist Party sent I. Grigulevich to Spain struck with civil war, where he became an aide-de-camp of General Rojo, the Chief of Staff of the Madrid Front Army. Since March of 1937, he began to carry out special tasks for Soviet foreign intelligence. Early in 1938, he was sent to Mexico, where he participated in the Utka (Duck) operation to neutralize L. Trotsky.

At the end of 1940, he returned to Argentina as the head of the illegal intelligence and sabotage network of the NKVD of the USSR. I. Grigulevich was tasked with organizing sabotage work to disrupt Germany's supply with food, fuel, and other strategic raw materials from neutral countries of Latin America. I. Grigulevich's group planted more than 150 mines on ships bound for German ports. The total number of agents in his network reached 200 people. For his work during the war years, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

After the Victory, he operated illegally in Brazil and Costa Rica under the cover name of Teodoro Castro. In 1951, by decision of the Costa Rica authorities, he was sent to Rome as First Secretary of the Consulate General, and then as Ambassador of that country to Italy and the Vatican. At the same time, he continued to successfully carry out intelligence assignments for the Center. In 1953, he was recalled to Moscow for security reasons, where he took up scientific and literary activities. He is the author of more than 50 books about heroes of the Latin American continent. In 1979, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR elected I. Grigulevich as a Corresponding Member.

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№ 3524 Санкт-Петербург “I. Grigulevich (1913–1988)”

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№ 3525 Москва “A. Korotkov (1909–1961)”

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Alexander Korotkov (1909–1961) was an outstanding Soviet intelligence officer and Major General.

Alexander Korotkov was born in Moscow on November 22, 1909. He joined the state security services in 1928. Korotkov rose through the ranks from an ordinary employee to a Deputy Head of foreign intelligence. Fluent in German, he made numerous trips abroad as an illegal agent. In 1933, he was sent on an illegal intelligence mission to France and Germany, where he worked until 1935 and recruited a number of valuable sources.

Before the Great Patriotic War, he was a deputy legal resident in Berlin. The Center set the task to him to reestablish a contact with a group of German anti-fascist underground activists known as the Red Chapel and obtain information about the military preparations and plans of the Hitler's regime with regard to the Soviet Union. It was A. Korotkov who received a message from the Starshina source in June of 1941: “All of Germany's military preparations for an armed attack against the USSR have been completed, and the strike can be expected at any time”.

In the early days of the war, when the building of the Soviet Embassy in Berlin was blocked by the Gestapo, A. Korotkov risked his life several times by going out into the city to meet with agents. During the war, he also carried out operations to organize contacts with foreign intelligence agents in Germany, supervised the training of illegal agents and their transfer to the enemy territory. In 1946, he became Deputy Head of foreign intelligence, and from May to July of 1953, he served as acting Head of foreign intelligence. From 1957 until his sudden death, he was the KGB representative to the Ministry of State Security of the GDR in Berlin.

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№ 3525 Санкт-Петербург “A. Korotkov (1909–1961)”

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№ 3526 Москва “V. Lyagin (1908–1943)”

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Viktor Lyagin (1908–1943) was a Soviet intelligence officer and a Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

Viktor Lyagin was born on December 31 of 1908 in the village of Seltso in the Bryansk Region. In 1934, he graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and worked as an engineer at the Leningrad Machine Tool Plant. In 1938, he was sent to work at the NKVD Office for the Leningrad Region, and then transferred to Moscow to serve in intelligence. From 1939 to 1941, he was on a business trip to the United States, working under the cover of an Amtorg engineer in San Francisco and New York.

With the start of the Great Patriotic War, he submitted a report to the intelligence leadership requesting to be sent behind enemy lines. In August of 1941, V. Lyagin and a group of colleagues were sent to occupied Nikolaev to organize reconnaissance and sabotage operations against the Nazis. His group used to obtain and transmit important intelligence information about the enemy to the Center and carried out a number of major sabotage operations. In March of 1943, V. Lyagin was captured by the Nazis. During interrogations, he behaved courageously, despite torture, and did not betray the other members of the group to the enemy. On July 17 of 1943, V. Lyagin was executed by shooting. On November 5 of 1944, for carrying out special tasks behind enemy lines and for his courage and heroism, V. Lyagin was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

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№ 3526 Санкт-Петербург “V. Lyagin (1908–1943)”

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№ 3527 Москва “N. Prokopyuk (1902–1975)”

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Nikolai Prokopyuk (1902–1975) was the leader of the Okhotniki (Hunters) Chekist intelligence unit during the Great Patriotic War, a colonel, a Hero of the Soviet Union.

He was born on June 7, 1902, in the village of Samchiki, Kamenets-Podolsky Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1916, he passed the exam for six grades of a boys' gymnasium as an external student. In 1919–1921, he fought in the ranks of the Red Army. In 1921, he was assigned to work for the state security services. From 1924, he worked in intelligence for the border forces, and from 1935, he was an officer of Soviet foreign intelligence in Republican Spain and Finland.

During the Great Patriotic War, N. Prokopyuk was the commander of the Okhotniki (Hunters) NKVD intelligence unit, which initially operated in the western areas of the Kiev Region and then in the Tsumansk forests. His unit fought more than 20 battles with anti-partisan forces and defended the Polish population in Volhynia from attacks by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). He helped the self-defense units in Przemyśl to survive, thereby saving many Poles from death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists. In 1944, under the command of N. Prokopiuk, the partisan unit broke out of the encirclement and fought its way through more than 300 kilometers. In the autumn of 1944, his unit took part in the Slovak National Uprising. There the unit grew into a partisan brigade of over 600 fighters (including more than 200 Czechs and Slovaks). In the fight against the German invaders, N. Prokopyuk proved himself to be a capable commander. During the East Carpathian offensive on September 26 of 1944, his brigade advanced from the rear to the Eastern Beskids Pass to meet the advancing Red Army, captured it, and held it for two days until the Soviet troops arrived.

After the war, he headed one of the departments of the Soviet military administration in Germany. On November 5, 1944, for his exemplary performance of special tasks behind enemy lines and the courage and heroism he manifested by so doing, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

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№ 3528 Москва “N. Troyan (1921–2011)”

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Nadezhda Troyan (1921–2011) was a Soviet intelligence agent and a nurse in the Burya partisan detachment, a Hero of the Soviet Union, a candidate of medical sciences.

She was born on October 24, 1921, in the Belorussian city of Drissa. In 1939, she enrolled in the First Moscow Medical Institute, then transferred to the Medical Institute in Minsk where her parents lived.

During the Great Patriotic War, after the occupation regime had been established in Minsk, N. Troyan had to find a job to avoid being deported to Germany. In 1942, she moved with her parents to the town of Smolevichi in the Minsk Region, where she found work as an accountant at a peat factory. She soon established contact with an underground organization and became actively involved in its work. From July of 1942, N. Troyan was a liaison officer, a scout, and a nurse for the partisan detachments Stalin's Five, Burya, and Uncle Kolya's Brigade in the Minsk Region.

In 1943, together with Elena Mazanik and Maria Osipova, she took part in an operation to eliminate Hitler's governor in Belarus, Wilhelm von Kube, for which she was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

In 1947, N. Troyan graduated from the First Moscow Medical Institute, and in 1961, she defended her Candidate’s dissertation. She worked as the Director of the Research Institute of Public Health Education of the USSR Ministry of Health, an associate professor of the Department of Surgery at the First Moscow Medical Institute, and a vice-rector of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute. She successfully combined her professional activities with public work. She was a member of the Presidium of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans, a member of the Peace Committee, the Chairwoman of the Executive Committee of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of the USSR, a member of the Council of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters, and a Co-Chair of the International Organization for Public Health Education.

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№ 3528 Санкт-Петербург “N. Troyan (1921–2011)”

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№ 3529 Москва “P. Fitin (1907–1971)”

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Pavel Fitin (1907–1971) was the Head of Soviet foreign intelligence during World War II, a Lieutenant General.

Pavel Fitin was born on December 28, 1907, in the village of Ozhogino of the Tobolsk Province. From 1928 to 1932, he studied at the engineering faculty of the K.A. Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy. From 1932 to 1934, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Selkhozgiz Publishing House. From 1934 to 1935, he served in the Red Army. In March of 1938, he was sent following a Party enlistment to study at the Higher School of the NKVD.

In October of 1938, he was enrolled as an intern in the 5th Department (Foreign Intelligence) of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR. In May of 1939, P. Fitin became the Head of foreign intelligence. Receiving information from sources abroad that Germany was preparing to attack the USSR, P. Fitin sent to I. Stalin more than 100 intelligence reports between January and June of 1941 concerning the necessity to take urgent measures to strengthen the country's defense capabilities.

During the War, Third Rank State Security Commissar P. Fitin did everything possible to provide the country's leaders with reliable information about the strategic plans of the German command, with information about the likelihood of opening a “second front” in Europe, and materials about the plans of the USSR's allies in the anti-Hitler coalition for the post-war period. In particular, in 1943, the Soviet intelligence service in London intercepted a British intelligence report on the German plan of offensive at the Kursk Bulge, which allowed the USSR leadership to take the necessary countermeasures and defeat the enemy. P. Fitin made an important contribution to the Soviet Union acquiring nuclear weapons secrets. In September of 1941, on assignment from headquarters, a source in the London residency, D. Maclean, reported on activities under way in the UK and the US to create an atomic bomb. By the end of 1945, the necessary information had been obtained from residences in England, the United States, and other countries, which permitted the USSR to create its own nuclear weapons in the shortest possible time and thereby to put an end to the US monopoly in this field.

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