Bublyk Ivan Pavlovych



Bublyk Ivan Pavlovych (1918-1996) was an officer of SMERSH, an independent counter-intelligence agency of the Soviet Red Army. He was the deputy chief of SMERSH of the 61st Army of First Belorussian Front during World War II.

Biography


Being of Cossack origin, Pavlovych supported the struggle for democracy under the red and yellow-blue banners of the territory of Ukraine and former Russian Empire (central Eurasia) from 1917–1923, which resulted in the creation of the Ukraine and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Ivan Bublyk was born in 1918 in the village of Kapustyntsi, today within the Yagotyn ragion of Kiev oblast, Ukraine and baptized on November 2, 1901 in the village church of Tashan. His father, Pavlo Fedotovych Bublyk, was a tailor.

Ivan had five brothers, who later worked in different spheres of social life of the Ukrainian Republic and Soviet Union: Kuzma Bublyk, Red Cossack, journalist and social activist, soldier of Red Cossacks Regiment Kuzma Bublyk; Soviet Ukrainian scientist Semen Bublyk; Danylo Bublyk, in 1938-1940 officer of the NKVD; cavalry and communications officer Vasyl Bublyk; and village teacher Yakiv Pavlovych Bublyk (1905–1999).

During World War II, Ivan served as the deputy chief of SMERSH of the 61st Army of First Belorussian Front. After World War II, he finished his work in SMERSH and begin to work as a jurist in the military.