Boris Jakovlevich Bazarov was born in 1893 in Kovno gubernia of Russian Empire (modern Lithuania). He spoke German, Bulgarian, French and Serbo-Croatian languages. Bazarov joined the OGPU in 1921 and began working in illegal operations in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in 1924. From 1924 to 1927 he worked in the Embassy of the USSR in Vienna , simultaneously supervising over the Austrian, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian and Romanian groups of agents. 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... City Flag Kaunas (Polish: Kowno, often anglicized as Kovno; Russian Каунас, formerly Ковно), is the second largest city in Lithuania with 400,000 inhabitants. ... Guberniya (also gubernia, guberniia, and gubernya) (Russian: губе́рния) was a major administrative subdivision of the Imperial Russia, usually translated as province or Governorate General. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian (srpskohrvatski or hrvatskosrpski), earlier also Serbo-Croat, was an official language of Yugoslavia (along with Slovenian and Macedonian). ... Obedinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie (or OGPU) (Combined State Political Directorate, also translated as All Union State Political Board) was the name of the secret police in the Soviet Union in one of the stages of its development. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, Југославија in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Vienna (German: Wien ; Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian: Beč, Czech: Vídeň, Hungarian: Bécs, Romanian: Viena, Romani: Bech or Vidnya, Russian: Вена, Slovak: Viedeň, Slovenian: Dunaj) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, Југославија in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...

In 1927 Bazarov returned to Moscow and supervised over the Balkan sector. In 1928 he moved to Berlin and ran the illegal rezidentura which included France. Simultaneously he continued work on the Balkan line. In Paris the rezidentura had eleven agents, in Bucharest six, Sofia two, Zagreb two, and one for Belgrad and Istanbul. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: ) is the capital of Russia and the countrys principal political, economic, financial, educational and transportation center, located on the river Moskva. ... ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). ... Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti ) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania. ... Official website: sofia. ... Zagreb at night, from Sljeme Zagreb cathedral St. ... For other uses, see Belgrade (disambiguation). ... Satellite image of Istanbul and the Bosphorus Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul) is Turkeys largest city, and its cultural and economic center. ...

In 1935 Bazarov took up the position of illegal rezident in the United States. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Bazarov was suspected in the Great Purges and shot in 1939. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956. The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of repression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s which included a purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Hede Massing, This Deception, New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1951).
• Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999).
• (Russian) Bazarov on the official site of Russian Intelligence Service