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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий
The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1873–1918
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1882–1941
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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
1883–1940
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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
1884–1926
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Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин
Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921
Military command · Soviet Union
1884–1927
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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
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
1886–1938
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Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов
Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1888–1928
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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
1888–1938
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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
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
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
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
1891–1938
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Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko Степан Максимович Петриченко
The sailor who led the Kronstadt rebellion, became a Soviet spy, and died in a camp
Political and party leadership · Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee
1892–1947
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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
1894–1938
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Georgy Ivanovich Blagonravov Георгий Иванович Благонравов
Bolshevik commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1896–1938
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Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин
Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1900–1929
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Semyon Grigoryevich Gendin Семён Григорьевич Гендин
Cheka-bred intelligence officer who led the GRU during the Great Purge and saved Sorge's Tokyo station
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1902–1939