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Shul-Tyltyn Mariya Yuryevna (1896-1938)

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SurnameShul-Tyltyn
NameMariya
PatronymYuryevna
Birth year1896
Birth placeDoblen
Death year1938
SexF

Shul-Tyltyn Mariya Yuryevna (Mariya-Emma) (1896, Doblen, Courland Governorate – 1938), intelligence officer. Senior lieutenant (1936). In 1919–20 – authorized representative of the Special Department of the 12th Army; in 1920–21 – head of a sector of the Registration Directorate of the Field Staff of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (the predecessor of the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army). From 1922, together with her husband Y.-A. Tyltyn, she carried out illegal intelligence work (under the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army) in France, and from 1927 – in the USA. In 1930–33 – Soviet military intelligence resident in France (whose operations also extended to Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries). In 1933 she was arrested in Finland together with a group of Soviet agents (about 30 people). In 1934 she was sentenced to 8 years of hard labor. She died in prison. She was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner.

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