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History and structure

February Revolution Provisional Government Tsarist Militias October Revolution

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NKVD activities

Political repression Enemies of the people NKVD troikas Courts martial Mass graves

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Overview

Russian Romanized Interior ministry Secret police Soviet Union

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People's Commissars

Yakov Agranov Mikhail Frinovsky Vsevolod Merkulov

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Headquarters: 11-13 ulitsa Bol. Lubyanka, Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Agency executives: Genrikh Yagoda (1934–1936) · Nikolai Yezhov (1936–1938) · Lavrentiy Beria (1938–1945) · Sergei Kruglov (1945–1946)
Child agencies: Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) · Main Directorate of Camps (Gulag) · Main Directorate of Militsiya (GURKM) · Main Directorate of Border and Internal Security (GUPiVO) · Internal troops
Dissolved: 15 March 1946; 80 years ago (1946-03-15)
Formed: 10 July 1934; 92 years ago (1934-07-10)
Jurisdiction: Soviet Union

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related to history · 46

NKVD → After, Alexei Niketan, August, Bolshevik, Bolsheviks, Cheka, Council, December, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Georgy Lvov, GPU, However, In, Internal Affairs, It, Joint State Political Directorate, July, Lenin, March, MVD

related to World War II operations · 30

NKVD → According, After, At, Austrian Communists, Battle, Before, Crimean, During World War II, Furthermore, German, German Gestapo, Gestapo, In March, Nazi, Nazi Germany, NKVD Internal Troops, NKVD Rifle Division, Order No, Poland, Soviet

related to Intelligence activities · 24

NKVD → Bolesław Bierut, Britain, British, Collection, Comintern, Disruption, Establishment, Manhattan Project, MI5, MI6, Operations, Penetration, People's Republic, Poland, President, Recruitment, Red Orchestra, Richard Sorge, Stalin, The

related to Domestic repressions · 22

NKVD → Communist Party, Doctors' Plot, Evidence, Formally, Gas, Great Purge, GULAG, Hundreds, In, Ivanovo, Moscow, NKVD Order, Omsk, Order, Politburo, Shakhty Trial, Some, Soviet, Soviet Union, The

related to Spanish Civil War · 18

NKVD → Alcalá, Andrés Nin, Communist Party, Henares, In, Madrid, NKVD's, Republican, Section, Soviet, Spain, Spanish Catholics, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Nationalists, Spanish Republicans, The NKVD, Trotskyist POUM, Trotskyists

related to International operations · 17

NKVD → Among, Besides, During, Espionage, Inostranny Otdel, Iskhak Akhmerov, Joseph Stalin, Mark Zborowski, Martha Dodd, Pavel Sudoplatov, Stalin, The NKVD, The NKVD's, Tsarist, United States, USSR, Western

related to External links · 16

NKVD → Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks, Cold War, Cold War International History, CWIHP, Media, Memorial, Ministry, MVD, OGPU/NKVD/MGB/KGB Archived, Project, Russian, Soviet, United States, Wayback Machine, Wikimedia CommonsFor, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2

related to Postwar operations · 12

NKVD → After, Baltic, From, In, Joseph Stalin, Legally, Many, Nikita Khrushchev, Only, Soviet, The, Very

see also · 11

NKVD → Bibliography, Germany, GulagPoison, Nazi POW, Nazis, NKVD Rifle DivisionHitler Youth, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Terror, World War II

related to Yezhov era · 10

NKVD → All-Union NKVD, During Yezhov's, Great Purge, In, May, Moscow's, Nikolai Yezhov, The Gulag, Until, Yezhov

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soviet state security people's union political internal ussr war police gugb agency secret intelligence gulag also russian camps ministry 1946

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
NKVD	Agency executives	Genrikh Yagoda (1934–1936)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Agency executives	Nikolai Yezhov (1936–1938)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Agency executives	Lavrentiy Beria (1938–1945)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Agency executives	Sergei Kruglov (1945–1946)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Child agencies	Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Child agencies	Main Directorate of Camps (Gulag)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Child agencies	Main Directorate of Militsiya (GURKM)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Child agencies	Main Directorate of Border and Internal Security (GUPiVO)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Child agencies	Internal troops	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Dissolved	15 March 1946; 80 years ago (1946-03-15)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Formed	10 July 1934; 92 years ago (1934-07-10)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Headquarters	11-13 ulitsa Bol. Lubyanka, Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Jurisdiction	Soviet Union	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Parent agency	Council of People's Commissars	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Preceding agencies	NKVD of the RSFSR	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Preceding agencies	OGPU	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Superseding agencies	Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Superseding agencies	Ministry of State Security (MGB)	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Type	Interior ministry	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Type	Secret police	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Type	Intelligence agency	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Type	Law enforcement	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Type	Gendarmerie	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Type	Border guard	1.00	infobox
NKVD	Type	Prison authority	1.00	infobox

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