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The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti, or The Committee for State Security) was the name of the main Russian security and intelligence organization from 13 March 1954 to 6 November 1991. |
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The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti, or The Committee for State Security) was the name of the main Russian security and intelligence organization from March 13 1954 to November 6 1991. |
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Heads of the KGB or equivalent [All-Russian Extraordinary Commissary against the Counterrevolution and Sabotage]? (Cheka) [Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinksiy]? 1917 - 1922 Main Political Department (GPU?) Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinksiy 1922 - 1923 Joint Main Political Department (OGPU?) Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinksiy 1923 - July 1926 [Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinskiy]? July 1926 - May 1934 OGPU merged into the NKVD? in July 1934 [Peoples Commissary for State Security]? (NKGB) [Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov]? February 1941 - March 1946 [Ministry of State Security]? (MGB) [Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov]? March 19 1946 - May 7 1946 [Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov]? May 7 1946 - July 14 1951 [Sergey Ogoltsov]? July 14 1951 - August 9 1951 [Semyon Denisovich Ignatiyev]? August 9 1951 - March 5 1953 MGB merged into MVD March 5 1953 Committee for State Security (KGB) [Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov]? March 13 1954 - December 8 1958 [Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin]? December 25 1958 - November 13 1961 [Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastniy]? November 13 1961 - May 18 1967 [Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov]? May 18 1967 - May 26 1982 [Vitaliy Vasilyevich Fedorchuk]? May 26 1982 - December 17 1982 [Viktor Mikhaylovich Chebrikov]? December 17 1982 - October 1 1988 [Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov]? October 1 1988 - August 22 1991 Leonid Nikolayevich Shebarshin August 22 1991 - August 23 1991 (Acting) [Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin]? August 23 1991 - October 22 1991 |
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