People of the Revolution and the USSR
Security, intelligence and policing
Background: Belarus
People of the Stalin era 1929–1953
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- Lev Nikolayevich Belsky Лев Николаевич Бельский The deputy commissar who ran the Soviet police
- Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service
- Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов The Cheka’s architect of political investigations
- Isaak Ilyich Shapiro Исаак Ильич Шапиро Yezhov's chief of secretariat, keeper of the Great Terror's papers and figures
- 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
- Israel Moiseyevich Leplevsky Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский The man who drove the Ukrainian mass operations to their peak
- Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik Николай Сидорович Власик Stalin's shadow for 25 years as head of personal security
- Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage