Anatoly Gurevich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anatoly Gurevich

Russian spy

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1913

Place of Birth: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 02-Jan-2009

Profession: intelligence assessment, spy

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Anatoly Gurevich

  • Anatoly Markovich Gurevich (Russian: ???????? ???????? ???????) (born 7 November 1913 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, died 2 January 2009 in Saint Petersburg) was a Jewish professional Soviet intelligence officer, known as a scout and who was a member of the GRU.
  • Gurevich was a central figure in the anti-Nazi Red Orchestra in France and Belgium during World War II.
  • Gurvich had a number of aliases that he used to disguise his day to day identity, including Vincente Sierra, Victor Sukolov, Arthus Barcza and Simon Urwith, as well as a number of code names including Kent, Fritz, Manolo, Dupuis and Lebrun that he used to disguise his identity in radio communications.
  • Gurevich ran one of the seven groups of networks that were controlled by Leopold Trepper in France.
  • Gurevich was second only to Trepper as the leading Soviet agent in Europe during the war years.
  • Upon his return to the Soviet Union in 1945, Gurevich was sentenced for treason and spent 15 years in detention and was rehabilitated in 1990.

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