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). 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.
References
- "03231" Кобецкий Михаил Вениаминович (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
- 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 byLeonid Stark | Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Estonia 1924 |
Succeeded byAdolf Petrovsky |
| Preceded by? | Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Denmark 1924–1933 |
Succeeded byFyodor Raskolnikov |
| Preceded byYakov Davydov | Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Greece 1934–1937 |
Succeeded byNikolai Sharonov |
| Preceded byArkady Krakovecky | Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Albania (non-resident) 1935–1937 |
Succeeded byNikolai Sharonov |
- 1881 births
- 1937 deaths
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Executive Committee of the Communist International
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Albania
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Denmark
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Greece
- Great Purge victims from Russia
- Politicians from Odesa
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Estonia