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Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
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Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский
Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1874–1934
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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński
“Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1877–1926
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Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский
The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1878–1938
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров
Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1878–1941
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Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий
Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1879–1937
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Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт
From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1879–1938
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Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький
Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1882–1941
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Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас
The security viceroy of the Far East
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1938
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Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер
Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1940
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Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel Нафталий Аронович Френкель
From prisoner to directorate chief, and dead in his own bed
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1960
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Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов
The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1884–1926
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Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский
First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1885–1925
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Yakov Khristoforovich Peters Яков Христофорович Петерс
Founding deputy chairman of the Cheka, Honorary Chekist No. 2
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1886–1938
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Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов
Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1888–1937
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Martin Ivanovich Lācis Mārtiņš Lācis
Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Cheka and theorist of class-based Red Terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1888–1938
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Lazar Iosifovich Kogan Лазарь Иосифович Коган
The Gulag's first chief and builder of Belomor
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1889–1939
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Mikhail Ivanovich Ryzhov Михаил Иванович Рыжов
Yezhov’s intimate who rose to deputy commissar and died under interrogation
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1889–1939
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Lev Nikolayevich Belsky Лев Николаевич Бельский
The deputy commissar who ran the Soviet police
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1889–1941
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Yuvelian Davidovich Sumbatov-Topuridze Ювельян Давидович Сумбатов-Топуридзе
Azerbaijan's people's commissar of internal affairs in the mass operations, arrested in the Beria case
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1889–1960
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Artur Karlovich Stashevsky Артур Карлович Сташевский
The Soviet trade representative who sent Republican Spain's gold to Moscow
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1890–1937
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Stanislav Adamovich Messing Станислав Адамович Мессинг
Dzerzhinsky's Polish comrade, a Cheka founding pillar who defied Yagoda's fabrications
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1890–1937
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Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов
Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1891–1937
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Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов
NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1891–1938
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Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda Генрих Григорьевич Ягода
The NKVD chief who expanded the Gulag and became a purge defendant
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1891–1938
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Yefim Georgiyevich Yevdokimov Ефим Георгиевич Евдокимов
Architect of the Shakhty case and boss of the North Caucasus
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1891–1940
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Vsevolod Apollonovich Balitsky Всеволод Аполлонович Балицкий
The master of the Ukrainian security apparatus
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1937
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Mikhail Iosifovich Litvin Михаил Иосифович Литвин
Yezhov's personnel chief who purged 14,000 Chekists
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1938
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Stanislav Frantsevich Redens Станислав Францевич Реденс
Stalin's brother-in-law who chaired the Moscow troika
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1940
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Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский
Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1956
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Karl Viktorovich Pauker Карл Викторович Паукер
The operations chief who guarded Stalin
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1893–1937
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Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов
The Cheka’s architect of political investigations
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1893–1938
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Nikolai Iosifovich Antonov-Gritsyuk Николай Иосифович Антонов-Грицюк
Chekist who went from chairing the Kabardino-Balkar troika to heading the NKVD prison department
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1893–1939
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Eduard Petrovich Berzin Эдуард Петрович Берзин
The Latvian Chekist who built Dalstroy and colonised Kolyma with forced labour for gold
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1938
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Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky Леонид Михайлович Заковский
The Hammer of Leningrad
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1938
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Sergei Naumovich Mironov Сергей Наумович Миронов
The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who opened the mass operations in West Siberia
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1940
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Shalva Otarovich Tsereteli Шалва Отарович Церетели
From tsarist officer to Beria's untitled enforcer in state security
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1955
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Vasily Mikhailovich Zarubin Василий Михайлович Зарубин
The NKVD rezident who ran a Gestapo mole and coordinated Soviet atomic espionage in America
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1972
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Georgy Yevgenyevich Prokofiev Георгий Евгеньевич Прокофьев
The deputy commissar who manufactured the wrecking cases
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1937
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Pavel Petrovich Bulanov Павел Петрович Буланов
Yagoda's secretary who staged the Moscow trials and became a defendant himself
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1938
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Isaak Ilyich Shapiro Исаак Ильич Шапиро
Yezhov's chief of secretariat, keeper of the Great Terror's papers and figures
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Izrail Yakovlevich Dagin Израиль Яковлевич Дагин
From North Caucasus NKVD chief to government protection head, an executor of the Great Terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov Николай Иванович Ежов
The Bloody Dwarf, an executor of the Great Terror shaped by the party personnel apparatus
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Vladimir Yefimovich Tsesarsky Владимир Ефимович Цесарский
Yezhov’s confidant who kept the Great Terror’s ledgers
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Zinovy Markovich Ushakov Зиновий Маркович Ушаков
The interrogator who beat a confession out of Tukhachevsky, and spoke of beating only once it was his turn
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1940
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Richard Gustavovich Sorge Рихард Густавович Зорге
The spy who stole the war’s timetable in Tokyo
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1944
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Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов
The NKGB chief named first in the Katyn order, who wrote plays under a pseudonym
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1953
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Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin Василий Михайлович Блохин
The executioner who served twenty-seven years under three chiefs
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1955
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Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov Александр Михайлович Орлов
The NKVD chief in Spain who shipped the Republic's gold to Moscow and broke the POUM, then fled Stalin
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1973
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Georgy Ivanovich Blagonravov Георгий Иванович Благонравов
Bolshevik commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1938
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Israel Moiseyevich Leplevsky Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский
The man who drove the Ukrainian mass operations to their peak
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1938