Bukhartsev Dmitry Pavlovich (pseudonyms: Vesturs, Akmens, Numurs, Vladimir Shtein) (1898, Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate – June 3, 1937) – journalist, scholar, and intelligence officer.

In 1920, Dmitry Bukhartsev joined the Communist Party of Latvia. From 1920 to 1923, he was a member of the Riga Bureau and later the secretary of the Central Bureau of the Jewish Section at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia. In 1923, he moved to Moscow, where he led a workers' correspondence circle at the “Kauchuk” factory and was a member of the methodological bureau of the Press Department of the Moscow Committee of the RCP(b).

In 1923–24, he worked as a referent at the Main Concessions Committee, and in 1924–26, as the head of the information department in the world economy sector of the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan). From May 1925, he headed the foreign department of the editorial board and was a member of the editorial board of Komsomolskaya Pravda. From 1929 to 1931, he served as the head of the TASS office in Vienna.

From 1931 to May 1934, he was a senior researcher at the Institute of World Economy of the Communist Academy, and concurrently, from July 1932, a member of the editorial board of the journal Abroad. From May 1934, he worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Izvestia in Germany. He held a Candidate of Economic Sciences degree.

During his overseas assignments, he carried out intelligence missions for the Foreign Department of the OGPU-NKVD. In 1935–36, he completed the recruitment of Martha Dodd (codename “Lisa”), the daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Germany, a mission originally initiated by intelligence officer and diplomat B. Vinogradov.

On November 23, 1936, Dmitry Bukhartsev was arrested. On June 2, 1937, he was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR for participating in an anti-Soviet terrorist organization, and executed the following day. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1960.