Boris Yakovlevich Bazarov (Russian: Борис Яковлевич Базаров; May 27, 1893 – February 21, 1939) was a Soviet secret police officer who served as the chief illegal rezident in New York City from 1935 until 1937.
Bazarov was born Boris Iakovlevich Shpak in 1893 in Kovno gubernia, Lithuania, which was then part of the Russian Empire.
After the Russian Revolution, as a man with military experience, he volunteered for the Soviet secret police (OGPU).
[1] His covert station controlled eleven agents in Paris, six in Bucharest, four in Sofia and Zagreb, and one for Belgrade and Istanbul.
Bazarov was arrested on July 3, 1938 during the Great Purges on charges of espionage, sentenced to death on February 21, 1939, and shot on the same day.