Intelligence and state security officers who left Soviet serviceCompiled by Kevin Riehle

Entry 41 of 121 · revised 2026-10-30

Vitaliy Grigoryevich Lyuboslavskiy

Виталий Григорьевич Любославский

Biography

Vitaliy Grigoryevich Lyuboslavskiy was born in 1923 in the town of Valday in the Novgorod Oblast. He was called into the Soviet Army in 1941. He and two other team members were dispatched behind German lines on an intelligence assignment in November 1941 attached to the Northwest Front. He surrendered to German forces and gave up his colleagues and mission. In 1941 and 1942 he served as an interpreter for an SD unit in the Pskov area using the name Vasiliy Paskarov. He was later recruited as a German agent and sent multiple times behind Soviet lines for intelligence missions. In 1944, he was operating in Latvia and Lithuania.[i]

Notes

  1. [i] “KGB Wanted List,” 1969, p. 230.

Cite this entry

Kevin Riehle, “Lyuboslavskiy, Vitaliy Grigoryevich,” Soviet Defectors Database, revised 2026-10-30, https://sovietdefectors.com/defector/lyuboslavskiy-vitaliy-grigoryevich/