People's Commissariat of State Security (Ukraine)

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History of State Security of Ukraine
Ukrainian State
State guard (1918)
Ukrainian SSR
VUNK (1918–1922) DPU UkrSSR (1924–1934) NKDB UkrSSR (1941) MDB UkrSSR (1943–1953) KDB UkrSSR (1954–1991)
Ukraine
SBU (1992–present)
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People's Commissariat of State Security of the UkrSSR or NKDB of the UkrSSR (Ukrainian: Народний комісаріат державної безпеки УРСР; НКДБ УРСР) was a union-republican agency of state security that was created for the first time on March 12, 1941 according to ukase of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR and which verbatim copied ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of February 3, 1941. Pavlo Meshyk was appointed a narkom.