Mikhail Kobetsky

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 (1924), Denmark (1924–33), Greece (1934–37) and Albania (1935–37).^[1] 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.^[2]

References

1. "03231" Кобецкий Михаил Вениаминович (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
2. Kobetsky, Mikhail (1920-09-30). "Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Communist International on the Case of Louis C. Fraina, September 30, 1920" (PDF). Communist Party of America. Retrieved 2024-07-24.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Leonid Stark	Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Estonia 1924	Succeeded by Adolf Petrovsky
Preceded by ?	Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Denmark 1924–1933	Succeeded by Fyodor Raskolnikov
Preceded by Yakov Davydov	Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Greece 1934–1937	Succeeded by Nikolai Sharonov
Preceded by Arkady Krakovecky	Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Albania (non-resident) 1935–1937	Succeeded by Nikolai Sharonov