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A People's Commissariat (Russian: народный комиссариат, romanized: narodnyy komissariat; Narkomat) was a structure in the Soviet state (in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in other union and autonomous republics, in the Soviet Union) from 1917–1946 which functioned as the central executive body in charge of managing a particular field of state activity or ...
An intelligence service and secret police from July 1934 to February 1941, it was run under the auspices of the Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs . Its first head was first deputy of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs (then Genrikh Yagoda), Commissioner 1st rank of State Security Yakov Agranov.
The Council of People's Commissars in 1919. Title reads "Top Authority of the Russian Soviet Republic" The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (Russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), romanized: Sovet narodnykh kommissarov (SNK)), commonly known as the Sovnarkom (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist ...
NKVD – "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs" GUGB – "Main Directorate for State Security" Lavrentiy Beria (July 20, 1941 – April 14, 1943) NKGB – "People's Commissariat for State Security" Vsevolod Merkulov (April 14, 1943 – March 18, 1946) (NKGB reseparated from NKVD) March 18, 1946: All People's Commissariats were renamed to ...
The GRU was not the only Soviet intelligence agency operating in Ottawa. The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs , the Soviet secret police and precursor to the KGB, also operated out of the Embassy, headed by Vitali Pavlov, who had arrived in Ottawa in 1942 when the legation was initially established. [37]
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR was created on 15 March 1946 from the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the interior ministry of the Soviet Union since 1934, when all the People's Commissariats (the Soviet equivalent to a government ministry) were rebranded and transformed into the Ministries of the Soviet Union.
A security agency is a governmental organization that conducts intelligence activities for the internal security of a state. [1] They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other countries' foreign intelligence efforts.
However, in the documents of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the terms "forced labour camp" and "concentration camp" were often used interchangeably; there is also the name "concentration labour camps", [6] so most likely this division into types was largely formal. In addition, when necessary (for example, when the Tambov ...