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Semyon Petrovich Uritsky

Born	March 2, 1895 Cherkasy, Russian Empire
Died	August 1, 1938 Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Russian Empire Soviet Union
Service / branch	Imperial Russian Army Soviet Red Army
Years of service	1915–1917 (Russian Empire) 1918–1937 (Soviet Union)
Rank	Komkor
Commands	13th Rifle Corps
Battles / wars	World War I Russian Civil War

Semyon Petrovich Uritsky (Russian: Семён Петро́вич Ури́цкий; March 2, 1895 – August 1, 1938) was a Soviet general. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks. He was promoted to the rank of Komkor on November 11, 1935. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner. He was head of the Soviet military intelligence from April 1935 to July 1937. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on November 1, 1937 and later executed at Kommunarka. He was rehabilitated in 1956. He was a nephew of Moisei Uritsky.

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Колпакиди А. И., Север А. (2009). ГРУ. Уникальная энциклопедия. Энциклопедия спецназа (5000 экз ed.). М.: Яуза Эксмо. pp. 682–683. ISBN 978-5-699-30920-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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Preceded byVitaly Primakov	Commander of the 13th Rifle Corps August 1932 – January 1934	Succeeded byAndrei Sazontov
Preceded byYan Berzin	Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet Union April 1935 – July 1937	Succeeded byYan Berzin

v t e Heads of the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye (GRU)
Russian Military Intelligence Soviet Military Intelligence
Soviet Union	Semyon Aralov Sergey Gusev Georgy Pyatakov Voldemar Aussem Yan Lentsman Arvid Zeybot Yan Karlovich Berzin Semyon Uritsky Alexander Nikonov Semyon Gendin Alexander Orlov Ivan Proskurov Filipp Golikov Alexei Panfilov Ivan Ilyichev Fyodor Kuznetsov Nikolai Trusov Matvei Zakharov Mikhail Shalin Sergei Shtemenko Ivan Serov Pyotr Ivashutin Vladlen Mikhailov
Russia	Yevgeny Timokhin Fyodor Ladygin Valentin Korabelnikov Aleksandr Shlyakhturov Igor Sergun Igor Korobov Igor Kostyukov