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History of The KGB

Organization	Chairman	Dates
Cheka–GPU–OGPU	Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky	1917–26
OGPU	Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky	1926–34
NKVD	Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda	1934–36
	Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov	1936–38
	Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria	1938–41
NKGB	Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov	1941 (Feb–Jul)
NKVD	Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria	1941–43
NKGB–MGB	Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov	1943–46
MGB	Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov	1946–51
	Semyon Denisovich Ignatyev	1951–53
	Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria	1953 (Mar–Jun)
	Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov	1953–54
KGB	Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov	1954–58
	Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin	1958–61
	Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny	1961–67
	Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov	1967–1982 (Jan-May)
	Vitali Vasilyevich Fedorchuk	1982 (May–Dec)
	Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov	1982–88
	Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov	1988–91
	Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin	1991 (Aug–Nov)

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