Boris Jakovlevich Bazarov (1893-1939) was a Soviet spy. He was born in 1893 in Kovno gubernia of the Russian Empire (modern Lithuania). In addition to Russian, he spoke German, Bulgarian, French and Serbo-Croatian. Bazarov joined the Soviet secret police (OGPU) in 1921 and began working in "illegal" operations in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in 1924. From 1924 to 1927, he worked in the Soviet embassy in Vienna, simultaneously supervising Austrian, Bulgarian, … Wikipedia
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