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People's Commissariat for Trade and Industry: Viktor Nogin: Natural causes 1924 People's Commissariat for Education: Anatoly Lunacharsky: Natural causes 1933 People's Commissariat for Food: Ivan Teodorovich: Executed 1937 People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs: Alexei Rykov: Executed 1938 People's Commissariat for Justice: Georgy Oppokov ...
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 ...
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, romanized: Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, IPA: [nɐˈrodnɨj kəmʲɪsərʲɪˈat ˈvnutrʲɪnʲɪɣ dʲel]), abbreviated as NKVD (Russian: НКВД; listen ⓘ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the ...
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.
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 Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the government of Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1946. It was established by the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies on November 9, 1917 "as an interim workers' and peasants' government" under the name of the Council of People's Commissars, [1] which was ...
During the Soviet struggle to establish control over Western Ukraine, NKVD units dressed as UPA fighters [1] committed atrocities in order to demoralize the civilian population, and to turn the people against nationalist groups. [2] Some of the NKVD units consisted of former UPA members.
The organization structure for the Directorate of Special Departments within NKVD was approved by the People's Commissariat on August 15, 1941, and declared by NKVD USSR order number No.001305, in 1941 between September 12 and 16. Victor Abakumov, as head of UOO NKVD USSR, had a powerful position.