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Secret police of the Soviet Union (1934–1946)
vnutrennikh del, IPA: [nɐˈrodnɨj kəmʲɪsərʲɪˈat ˈvnutrʲɪnʲɪɣ dʲel]), abbreviated as NKVD (Russian: НКВД; listen), was the interior ministry and secret police of the
NKVD
1941 mass executions of Soviet political prisoners
The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
NKVD_prisoner_massacres
1936–1938 campaign in the Soviet Union
the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), which functioned as the interior ministry and secret police of the USSR. In 1936, the NKVD under
Great_Purge
1937–38 Soviet ethnic cleansing of Poles
Polish Operation of the NKVD (Soviet security service) in 1937–1938 was an anti-Polish mass-ethnic cleansing operation of the NKVD carried out in the Soviet
Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD
Soviet counterintelligence agencies (1943–46)
separated from GUGB NKVD. The official liquidation of OO GUGB within NKVD was announced on 12 February by a joint order № 00151/003 of NKVD and NKGB USSR.
SMERSH
Ethnic persecutions during the Great Purge
Mass operations of the People's Comissariate of Internal Affairs (NKVD) were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people
Mass_operations_of_the_NKVD
Set of three officials of the Soviet political police issuing quick sentences
NKVD troika or Special troika (Russian: особая тройка, romanized: osobaya troyka), in Soviet history, were special quasi-judicial proceedings composed
NKVD_troika
Ukrainian nationalist partisan organisation active during and after World War II
that on 9 October 1944, one NKVD Division, eight NKVD brigades, and an NKVD cavalry regiment with a total of 26,304 NKVD soldiers were stationed in Western
Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army
1937 Soviet order to arrest German citizens
NKVD Order № 00439, signed by Nikolai Yezhov on July 25, 1937, was the basis for the German operation of the NKVD in 1937–1938. The operation was the
NKVD_Order_No._00439
Mass arrests and executions of Estonians in the USSR
Estonian Operation of the NKVD was a mass arrest, execution and deportations of persons of Estonian origin in the Soviet Union by the NKVD during the period of
Estonian Operation of the NKVD
Estonian_Operation_of_the_NKVD
Soviet secret police chief (1899–1953)
influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945 during the country's involvement in the Second World War
Lavrentiy_Beria
Main Soviet security agency from 1954 to 1991
of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD. Attached to the Council of Ministers, it was the chief government agency
KGB
Top secret order issued by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs
NKVD Order No. 00447 of July 30, 1937 was signed by Nikolai Yezhov and approved by the Politburo during the Great Purge. To execute this order, numerous
NKVD_Order_No._00447
NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895–1940)
a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass
Nikolai_Yezhov
Soviet secret police official (1891–1938)
1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936.
Genrikh_Yagoda
Soviet screening camp for returning soldiers
NKVD screening and filtration camps (Russian: проверочно-фильтрационные лагеря НКВД СССР), originally known as NKVD special-purpose camps / NKVD special
NKVD_filtration_camps
Legal category in Russian SFSR
in the Soviet Union during Stalinist purges of the 1930s and later. The NKVD Order No. 00486 instructed about repression of wives and children of enemies
Family members of a traitor to the Motherland
Family_members_of_a_traitor_to_the_Motherland
Mass repressions against Finns in the Soviet Union
Finnish Operation of the NKVD was a mass arrest, execution and deportations of persons of Finnish origin in the Soviet Union by the NKVD during the period of
Finnish_Operation_of_the_NKVD
Soviet NKVD defector
Анатолий Михайлович Грановский, 25 January 1922 – 4 September 1974) was a NKVD agent who defected to the West in 1946 and authored an autobiographical book
Anatoli_Granovsky
Armed border guard of the Soviet Union
agency: first to the Cheka/OGPU, then to NKVD/MGB and, finally, to the KGB. Accordingly, they were known as NKVD Border Security and KGB Border Troops.
Soviet_Border_Troops
Police meetings organized by Germany and the Soviet Union
The Gestapo–NKVD conferences were a series of security police meetings organised in late 1939 and early 1940 by Germany and the Soviet Union, following
Gestapo–NKVD_conferences
NKVD buildings in former Soviet Union - during the first years of the Soviet Union the NKVD took over a number of existing buildings, many building were
NKVD_buildings
Prison in Russia
(Russian: Чёрный дельфин, romanized: Chyorny delʹfin) and formerly known as NKVD Prison No. 2 is a prison in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, near its
Black_Dolphin_Prison
1937-38 Soviet ethnic cleansing of Poles
The Soviet NKVD Order No. 00485 was an anti-Polish ethnic cleansing campaign issued on August 11, 1937, which laid the foundation for the systematic elimination
NKVD_Order_No._00485
The special groups of the NKVD for fighting against nationalists (Russian: Специальные группы НКВД по борьбе с националистами) were units set up by the
NKVD_special_groups
Soviet Russian soldier and executioner (1895–1955)
Soviet secret police official who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolay Yezhov and Lavrentiy
Vasily_Blokhin
Soviet mass persecution of repatriates living in North Manchuria
NKVD Order No. 00593, also known as NKVD Order about Harbinites (приказ НКВД о харбинцах, ("Харбинский приказ") by September 20, 1937, undersigned by Nikolai
NKVD_Order_No._00593
the Soviet Union of World War II, NKVD labor columns (Russian: рабочие колонны НКВД, romanized: rabochiye kolonny NKVD) were militarized labor formations
NKVD_labor_columns
1940 murder in Mexico City, Mexico
politician, and political theorist Leon Trotsky was fatally attacked by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader with an ice axe at his residence in Mexico City. Trotsky
Assassination_of_Leon_Trotsky
Department of the Soviet KGB concerned with external intelligence
(GPU) and connecting it with People's Commisariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the Russian SFSR, foreign intelligence was conducted by the GPU Foreign
First_Chief_Directorate
Soviet massacre of Polish military officers and intelligentsia in 1940
Union between April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the NKVD prisons in Kalinin, Kharkiv and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the
Katyn_massacre
from 1936 to 1938, orchestrated by Joseph Stalin and carried out by the NKVD under Genrikh Yagoda and later Nikolai Yezhov. Triggered by the 1934 Assassination
Outline of the Great Purge (Soviet Union)
Outline_of_the_Great_Purge_(Soviet_Union)
2017 film by Armando Iannucci
allegedly mocking the Soviet Union and its past. "For 20 years, Stalin's NKVD security forces have imposed The Great Terror. Those on Stalin's list of
The_Death_of_Stalin
Military unit
The 1st Rifle Division NKVD was a division of the NKVD of the Soviet Union during World War II. The 1st Rifle Division NKVD was formed in August 1941 from
1st_Rifle_Division_NKVD
Soviet politician and revolutionary (1886–1934)
carried out by a senior NKVD chief, Yakov Agranov, and later by another NKVD bureau officer whose name he did not remember. The other NKVD official may have
Sergei_Kirov
Mass arrests and executions of Latvians in the USSR, 1937-38
операция», Latvian: „Latviešu operācija”) was a national operation of the NKVD against ethnic Latvians, Latvian nationals and persons otherwise affiliated
Latvian_Operation_of_the_NKVD
1941 massacre of Estonian prisoners by the Soviet NKVD in Tartu
The NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu (Estonian: Tartu vangla massimõrv) was a mass execution of 193 Estonian political prisoners by the NKVD at Tartu Prison
NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu
NKVD_prisoner_massacre_in_Tartu
1941 Soviet execution of prisoners
The NKVD prisoner massacre in Sambir was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Sambir, then located in occupied Poland (now in Ukraine)
NKVD prisoner massacre in Sambir
NKVD_prisoner_massacre_in_Sambir
The NKVD prisoner massacre in Zolochiv was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Zolochiv, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine
NKVD prisoner massacre in Zolochiv
NKVD_prisoner_massacre_in_Zolochiv
Soviet national security agency (1922–1923)
the NKVD of the RSFSR" (Russian: Государственное политическое управление при НКВД РСФСР, romanized: Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie pri NKVD RSFSR)
State_Political_Directorate
Post–World War II internment camps in the Soviet-occupied parts of Germany
NKVD special camps (German: Speziallager) were NKVD-run late and post-World War II internment camps in the Soviet-occupied parts of Germany from May 1945
NKVD special camps in Germany 1945–1950
NKVD_special_camps_in_Germany_1945–1950
Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
Internal Troops. The OGPU later became independent and in 1934 joined the NKVD secret police, and so its internal troops were under the joint leadership
Soviet_Union
NKVD special camp located at the site of the former Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp
NKVD special camp No. 2 was an NKVD special camp located at the site of the former Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp. Between 1945 and February 10, 1950
NKVD_special_camp_No._2
Soviet penal labor camp system
of whom were convicted in accordance with simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas or other instruments of extrajudicial punishment. The agency was
Gulag
Military unit
Division 'Stalingrad' of the Order of Lenin of the Internal Troops of the NKVD of the USSR (Russian: 10-я стрелковая Сталинградская ордена Ленина дивизия
10th_NKVD_Rifle_Division
Ukrainian nationalist Insurgency against the Soviet Union
The casualties among the NKVD personnel were as follows. Killed: 37 NKVD officers, 655 officers and soldiers of the NKVD and Red Army troops, and 112
Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Anti-Soviet_resistance_by_the_Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army
Country in Eastern Europe
when prominent representatives as well as many others were killed by the NKVD during the Great Purge. In general around 223 writers were repressed by what
Ukraine
Military unit
of the NKVD Internal Troops (Russian: 13-я мотострелковая дивизия внутренних войск НКВД СССР 13-y motostrelkovaya diviziya vnutrenikh voisk NKVD SSSR)
13th Motor Rifle Division NKVD
13th_Motor_Rifle_Division_NKVD
Directorate of Special Departments within NKVD USSR. rus. Управление Особых Отделов при НКВД СССР, (UOO) was an organization created in 1941 to conduct
Directorate of Special Departments within NKVD USSR
Directorate_of_Special_Departments_within_NKVD_USSR
Special Council of the USSR NKVD (Russian: Особое совещание при НКВД СССР (ОСО), romanized: Osoboe soveshchanie pri NKVD SSSR, (OSO)) was created by the
Special_Council_of_the_NKVD
Ukrainian Soviet NKVD officer (1910–1953)
Meshyk; 1910 – 23 December 1953) was a Ukrainian Soviet security operative and NKVD officer. Meshyk was born in a family of clerks in Konotop. After graduating
Pavlo_Meshyk
international organization of the territory of the Soviet Union. March 25 NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda submitted a proposal to the Politburo for sending "all
Timeline_of_the_Great_Purge
President of Russia (2000–2008; since 2012)
the Soviet Union, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD. Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded in
Vladimir_Putin
Gurby [uk] (also spelled Hurby) in the south of Zdolbuniv Raion, between the USSR NKVD troops and UPA forces. It ended with breakthrough of Ukrainian fighters from
Battle_of_Gurby
Country in Central Europe
1939–1941, the Soviets deported hundreds of thousands of Poles and the Soviet NKVD executed thousands of Polish prisoners of war ahead of Operation Barbarossa
Poland
Soviet intelligence officer (1905–1990)
1958 to February 1963. Serov was NKVD Commissar of the Ukrainian SSR from 1939 to 1941 and Deputy Commissar of the NKVD under Lavrentiy Beria from 1941
Ivan_Serov
February 6, 1922: Cheka transforms into GPU, a department of the NKVD of the Russian SFSR. NKVD – "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs" GPU – State Political
Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
Chronology_of_Soviet_secret_police_agencies
Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander (1911–1945)
After the invasion of Poland, the Soviet Union occupied Eastern Poland. The NKVD arrested Klyachkivsky in Lviv and sentenced him to death, which was commuted
Dmytro_Klyachkivsky
Soviet national security agency (1934–1943)
important security body within the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD USSR. At the time of its existence, which was from July 10, 1934 to February
Main Directorate of State Security
Main_Directorate_of_State_Security
Russian National Guard division
OGPU was transferred to the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (the NKVD). The division fought on the front lines of the Winter War against Finland
Separate Operational Purpose Division
Separate_Operational_Purpose_Division
Soviet Security Agency (1946–1953)
security responsibilities of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) and People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB). The MGB was led by
Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union)
Ministry_of_State_Security_(Soviet_Union)
Soviet and post-Soviet paramilitary force
internal troops were formed in 1919 under the Cheka (later NKVD, and were known as "NKVD Troops", formerly the "Internal Security Forces" (Russian: Voyska
Internal_troops
During the Soviet struggle to establish control over Western Ukraine, NKVD units dressed as UPA fighters committed atrocities in order to demoralize the
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs units dressed as Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighters
People's_Commissariat_for_Internal_Affairs_units_dressed_as_Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army_fighters
Mass murder of prisoners in Lviv prisons
The NKVD prison massacres in Lviv were a mass murder of prisoners held in Lviv prisons and detention centers, carried out by Soviet NKVD and NKGB officers
NKVD prisoner massacres in Lviv
NKVD_prisoner_massacres_in_Lviv
U.S. intelligence and covert action agency
Majesty's Own Chancellery Nazi Germany: Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst Soviet Union: NKVD, KGB United Kingdom: DMI United States: Office of Strategic Services Wang
Central_Intelligence_Agency
Soviet extrajudicial convictions, 1937–1938
albomnom poryadke) was a simplified procedure of extrajudicial conviction by NKVD, introduced in the Soviet Union during the Great Purge. The level of punishment
Album_procedure
Soviet agent in Nazi Germany
During World War II Lehmann was one of the most valuable sources for the NKVD in Germany. Lehmann was born into the family of a school teacher. He joined
Willi_Lehmann
Assassin of Leon Trotsky (1913–1978)
məɾkəˈðe]; 7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978) was a Spanish communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City
Ramón_Mercader
Soviet secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence force
was separated from the GUGB NKVD. The official liquidation of the OO GUGB and GUGB as organized units within the NKVD was announced on 12 February 1941
People's Commissariat for State Security
People's_Commissariat_for_State_Security
Museum and memorial located at former Stasi prison in Berlin
completed in 1939. In June 1945, at the conclusion of World War II, the Soviet NKVD took over the Hohenschönhausen area of Lichtenberg and transformed it into
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen_Memorial
1941 Soviet war crime
The NKVD prisoner massacre in Berezhany was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Berezhany, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine
NKVD prisoner massacre in Berezhany
NKVD_prisoner_massacre_in_Berezhany
1937 forced transfer to Central Asia
to unpopulated areas of the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR in 1937 by the NKVD on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chairman of the Council
Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
Deportation_of_Koreans_in_the_Soviet_Union
Polish Underground raid in 1945
(Armia Krajowa, AK), led by Colonel Edward Wasilewski, attacked a Soviet NKVD camp located in Rembertów in the eastern outskirts of Warsaw. Hundreds of
Attack on the NKVD Camp in Rembertów
Attack_on_the_NKVD_Camp_in_Rembertów
Soviet government ministry
Union from 1946 to 1991. The MVD was established as the successor to the NKVD during the reform of the People's Commissariats into the Ministries of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)
Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Soviet_Union)
Vehicle used for mass murder, especially during the Holocaust
German-occupied Europe. There are several documented cases of gas vans used by Soviet NKVD during the Great Purge. The use of gas vans by Germans to kill Jews, Poles
Gas_van
Military unit
The 69th Brigade of the NKVD troops for protection of especial importance industrial facilities (Russian: 69-я бригада войск НКВД CCCP по охране особо
69th_Brigade_NKVD
Soviet war crime
The NKVD prisoner massacre in Dubno was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Dubno, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine. Between
NKVD prisoner massacre in Dubno
NKVD_prisoner_massacre_in_Dubno
1941 massacre of prisoners by Soviet NKVD
The NKVD prisoner massacre in Lutsk was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD and NKGB in the city of Lutsk, situated in occupied Poland (present-day
NKVD prisoner massacre in Lutsk
NKVD_prisoner_massacre_in_Lutsk
Soviet Camp in Brandenburg, Germany
The NKVD Special Camp No. 1 (German: Speziallager Nr. 1 Mühlberg) was a special camp operated by the NKVD from 1945 to 1948, during the Soviet occupation
NKVD_Special_Camp_No._1
1941 massacre of Jews in Kaunas, Lithuania
occupation of Lithuania. The most infamous incident occurred at the garage of NKVD Kaunas section, a nationalized garage of Lietūkis, an event known as the
Kaunas_pogrom
WWII Allied intelligence operation
(in East German sources) was a secret deception operation performed by the NKVD against the Nazi secret services from August 1944 to May 1945. It was proposed
Operation_Scherhorn
1941 Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII
severe measures against anyone inciting panic or displaying cowardice. The NKVD worked with commissars and military commanders to scour possible withdrawal
Operation_Barbarossa
American anthropologist and spy (1908–1990)
Zborowski or Etienne) was an anthropologist and an NKVD agent (Venona codenames TULIP and KANT). He was the NKVD's most valuable mole inside the Trotskyist organization
Mark_Zborowski
Major World War II battle from 1942 to 1943
opponents had in part included women. In the early stages of the battle, the NKVD organised poorly armed "Workers' militias" similar to those that had defended
Battle_of_Stalingrad
1988–1991 breakup of the sovereign state
pro-democracy and pro-independence movement in Belarus. It claimed that the NKVD performed secret killings in Kurapaty. Initially the Front had significant
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union
Intelligence agency of the USSR (1923–1934)
State Security (GUGB) within the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). The OGPU played an important role in the Soviet Union's forced collectivization
Joint State Political Directorate
Joint_State_Political_Directorate
one of the many NKVD prisoner massacres committed in 1941. At the time of Yakovleva's arrest in 1937 and conviction in 1938, the NKVD agency executive
LGBTQ history in the Soviet Union
LGBTQ_history_in_the_Soviet_Union
German politician
He was assassinated by the NKVD in Paris in 1938, while preparing a political report that included an investigation of NKVD agent Mark Zborowski, who had
Rudolf_Klement
Давыдович Берман; 15 May 1901 – 22 February 1939) was a leading member of the NKVD, who played a prominent role in the Great Purge before he was himself arrested
Boris_Berman_(chekist)
Russian school of intelligence tradecraft
Security (GUGB) of the NKVD. On March 21, 1939 the Central School of GUGB NKVD was reorganized as the Graduate School of the NKVD. By the early 1940s, every
FSB_Academy
Russian Trotskyist (1898–1981)
Menshevik David Dallin, and has been suspected of being an NKVD asset because of her association with NKVD agent Mark Zborowski. She was born in Liepāja, Courland
Lilia_Estrin_Dallin
Soviet secret police (1917–1922)
point-blank range. This had become the standard method used later by the NKVD to liquidate Joseph Stalin's purge victims and others. It is believed that
Cheka
1944 Soviet ethnic cleansing and genocide
expulsion, referred to by Chechens often as Aardakh (the Exodus), was ordered by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria after approval by Soviet leader and dictator Joseph
Operation_Lentil_(Caucasus)
Army) as well as acts which were committed by the country's secret police, NKVD, including its Internal Troops. In many cases, these acts were committed
Soviet_war_crimes
1937–1939 purges in Mongolia
Great Purge) unfolding across the Soviet Union around the same time. Soviet NKVD advisors, under the nominal direction of Mongolia's de facto leader Khorloogiin
Stalinist repressions in Mongolia
Stalinist_repressions_in_Mongolia
Soviet general and politician (1907–1977)
the NKVD (Особоуполномоченный НКВД), with responsibility for investigating and prosecuting NKVD personnel. He played an active role in purging NKVD protégés
Sergei_Kruglov_(politician)
Leader of Mongolia from 1939 to 1952
Choibalsan rubber-stamped NKVD execution orders and at times personally directed executions. He also added names of political enemies to NKVD arrest lists simply
Khorloogiin_Choibalsan
Military unit
The 4th NKVD Rifle Division was a military formation of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR during World War II. The division was
4th_NKVD_Rifle_Division
American congressman and state supreme court justice (1885–1954)
learned that Soviet files indicate that Dickstein was a paid agent of the NKVD. Dickstein was born on February 5, 1885, into a Jewish family of five children
Samuel_Dickstein
Peninsula in Europe
the USSR" (PDF) "On Germans Living on the Territory of the Ukrainian SSR" "NKVD Arrest List Archived 16 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine" (PDF) "A People
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Separation from world
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Indian, Kannada
Name of Great Freedom Queen Channamma
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People's Victory
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