Garegin Abramovich Apresov (Russian: Гарегин Абрамович Апресов; 6 January 1890 – 11 September 1941) was a Soviet diplomat and intelligence officer, most notable for his tenure in Xinjiang during Sheng Shicai's rule.

Garegin A. Apresov (Apresoff, Apresof) was born to an Armenian family in Qusar in what was then Baku Governorate in Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire.

From 1921 to 1921, Apresov served as Deputy People's Commissar for Justice of the Azerbaijan SSR and as a commander of a brigade of the Red Army.

For some time he was also a representative of the Foreign Department of the Joint State Political Directorate (INO OGPU) and Soviet Interim Commissioner for Persia (1923–24).

Between September 1927 and July 1928, Apresov served as a member of the Military Collegiate of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, but resigned at his own request.

[7] In 1935, he was named the Soviet General Consul and Representative of the INO OGPU in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China.

At the same time, he was the Commissioner of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, whose tasks included ensuring that representatives of all departments pursue a single line; employees of other people's commissariats were prohibited from taking any actions that had or could have political significance for the USSR without the prior permission of the Commissioner of the Central Committee.

[15] From 1935 to 1936 he was Chief of the Second Eastern Department of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (NKID).

[5][7] Swedish traveler Sven Hedin, who met G. A. Apresov in Urumqi, described him as an open, good-natured and cheerful person[16].

Hedin was also warmly received at the USSR Consulate General, and a large banquet was organized in honor of the meeting.

English traveler and diplomat Eric Teichman was also warmly received at the USSR Consulate General and even participated in the lavish celebration of October Revolution Day[17].

He did not admit guilt at the meeting of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court, saying that he had stipulated himself earlier as a result of the use of physical methods of influence.

[22] He also accused head of NKVD Nikolay Yezhov's former first deputy Mikhail Frinovsky, with whom he had had strained relations since both worked in Baku in 1930, of slander.

At the court hearing, he stated that as a result of the use of physical methods of influence, his teeth were knocked out and he became deaf in one ear.

S. A. Apresov was rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on April 14, 1956, for lack of corpus delicti.