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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 ...
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 special rank of Major of State Security was introduced by Decisions of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union No. 20 and the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union No. 2256 of October 7, 1935, [2] announced by Order of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union No. 319 of October 10, 1935 [3] for the commanding staff of the Main Directorate ...
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 ...
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 ministry inherited the intelligence and state security responsibilities of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) and People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB). The MGB was led by Viktor Abakumov from 1946 to 1951, then by Semyon Ignatiev until Stalin's death in 1953, upon which it was merged into an enlarged Ministry ...