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Took office | Left office | Premier | ||
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1 | Chairman of the Cheka (1917–1922) | |||||
Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) |
20 December 1917 | 6 February 1922 |
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Chairman of the GPU (1922–1934) | ||||||
Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) |
6 February 1922 | 20 July 1926 |
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2 | Vyacheslav| Menzhinsky (1874–1934) |
30 July 1926 | 10 May 1934 |
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3 | People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (1934–1934) | |||||
Genrikh Yagoda (1891–1936) |
10 July 1934 | 26 September 1936 |
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4 | Nikolai Yezhov (1885–1940) |
26 September 1936 | 25 November 1938 |
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5 | Lavrentiy Beriya (1899–1953) |
25 November 1938 | 3 February 1941 |
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6 | People's Commissar for State Security (1941) | |||||
Vsevolod Merkulov (1895–1953) |
3 February 1941 | 20 July 1941 |
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5 | People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (1941–1943) | |||||
Lavrentiy Beriya (1899–1953) |
20 July 1941 | 14 April 1943 |
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6 | People's Commissar for State Security (1943–1946) | |||||
Vsevolod Merkulov (1895–1953) |
14 April 1943 | 15 March 1946 |
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Ministry of State Security (1946–1953) | ||||||
Vsevolod Merkulov (1895–1954) |
15 March 1946 | 18 March 1946 |
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7 | Viktor Abakumov (1908–1954) |
— | 18 March 1946 | 1951 |
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8 | Semyon Ignatyev (1904–1983) |
— | 1951 | 5 March 1953 |
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5 | Lavrentiy Beriya (1899–1953) |
5 March 1953 | 26 June 1953 |
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9 | Sergei Kruglov (1907–1977) |
— | June 1953 | 13 March 1954 |
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10 | Chairman of the Committee for State Security (1953–1991) | |||||
Ivan Serov (1905–1990) |
— | 13 March 1954 | 8 December 1958 |
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11 | Alexander Shelepin (1918–1994) |
— | 25 December 1958 | 13 November 1961 |
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12 | Vladimir Semichastny (1924–2001) |
13 November 1961 | 18 May 1967 |
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13 | Yuri Andropov (1914–1984) |
18 May 1967 | 26 May 1982 |
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14 | Vitaly Fedorchuk (1918–2004) |
— | 26 May 1982 | 17 December 1982 |
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15 | Viktor Chebrikov (1923–1999) |
17 December 1982 | 1 October 1988 |
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16 | Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924–2007) |
1 October 1988 | 22 August 1991 |
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- | Leonid Shebarshin (interim) (1935–2012) |
— | 22 August 1991 | 23 August 1991 | ||
17 | Vadim Bakatin (born 1937) |
— | 23 August 1991 | 22 October 1991 |
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