Mikhail Kobetsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mikhail Kobetsky

Soviet diplomat

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1881

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 28-Apr-1937

Profession: politician, diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Mikhail 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 arrested during one of the purges and executed.