People of the Revolution and the USSR
Security, intelligence and policing
Background: Russia
The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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- Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger
- Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar
- 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
- Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO
- Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system
- 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
- Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation
- Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust
- Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition
- Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko Степан Максимович Петриченко The sailor who led the Kronstadt rebellion, became a Soviet spy, and died in a camp
- Georgy Ivanovich Blagonravov Георгий Иванович Благонравов Bolshevik commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress
- Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky
- Semyon Grigoryevich Gendin Семён Григорьевич Гендин Cheka-bred intelligence officer who led the GRU during the Great Purge and saved Sorge's Tokyo station