- List of Chairmen of the KGB
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The Chairman of the KGB was the head of the Soviet KGB. He was assisted by one or two First Deputy Chairmen, and four to six Deputy Chairmen. And he was the head of the Collegium of the KGB— which consisted of the Chairman, deputy chairmen, Directorate Chiefs, and one or two republic-level KGB organization chairmen— who affected key policy decisions.
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Organization Chairman Took Office Left Office Cheka/GPU/OGPU Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky 20 December 1917 20 July 1926 OGPU Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky 30 July 1926 10 May 1934 NKVD Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda 10 July 1934 26 September 1936 Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov 26 September 1936 25 November 1938 Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria November 1938 3 February 1941 NKGB Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov 3 February 1941 20 July 1941 NKVD Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria 20 July 1941 14 April 1943 NKGB/MGB Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov 14 April 1943 18 March 1946 MGB Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov 18 March 1946 1951 Semyon Denisovich Ignatyev 1951 5 March 1953 Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria 5 March 1953 26 June 1953 Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov June 1953 13 March 1954 KGB Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov 13 March 1954 8 December 1958 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin 25 December 1958 13 November 1961 Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny 13 November 1961 18 May 1967 Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov 18 May 1967 26 May 1982 Vitali Vasilyevich Fedorchuk 26 May 1982 17 December 1982 Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov 17 December 1982 1 October 1988 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov 1 October 1988 22 August 1991 Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin 23 August 1991 22 October 1991 See also
- Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
- Heads of the FSK
- Heads of the FSB
Sources
- Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, Gardners Books (2000), ISBN 0-14-028487-7 Basic Books (1999), hardcover, ISBN 0-465-00310-9; trade paperback (September, 2000), ISBN 0-465-00312-5
- John Barron, "KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents",Reader's Digest Press (1974), ISBN 0-88349-009-9
- Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Basic Books (2005) hardcover, 677 pages ISBN 0465003117
Further reading
- Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia – Past, Present, and Future. Farrar Straus Giroux (1994) ISBN 0-374-52738-5.
- John Barron. KGB: The Secret Works Of Soviet Secret Agents. Bantam Books (1981) ISBN 0-553-23275-4
- Vadim J. Birstein. The Perversion Of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science. Westview Press (2004) ISBN 0-8133-4280-5 (describes a secret KGB lab engaged in development and testing of poisons)
- John Dziak, Chekisty: A History of the KGB, Lexington Books (1988) ISBN 978-0669102581
- Sheymov, Victor (1993). Tower of Secrets. Naval Institute Press. pp. 420. ISBN 1-55750-764-3.
- Бережков, Василий Иванович (2004). Руководители Ленинградского управления КГБ : 1954-1991. Санкт-Петербург: Выбор, 2004. ISBN 5-93518-035-9 (in Russian)
External links
- KGB Information Center from FAS.org
- Chebrikov, Viktor M., et al., eds. Istoriya sovetskikh organov gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti. (1977) [1]
- Slaves of KGB. 20th Century. The religion of betrayal (Russian) - book by Yuri Shchekochikhin
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