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Chronology of Soviet security agencies | ||
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1917–22 | Cheka of the Sovnarkom of the RSFSR (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission) | |
1922–23 | GPU of the NKVD of the RSFSR (State Political Directorate) | |
1923–34 | OGPU of the Sovnarkom of the USSR (Joint State Political Directorate) | |
1934–41 1941–43 |
NKVD of the USSR (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)
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1941 1943–46 |
NKGB of the USSR (People's Commissariat for State Security) | |
1946–53 | MGB of the USSR (Ministry of State Security) | |
1953–54 | MVD of the USSR (Ministry of Internal Affairs) | |
1954–91 | KGB of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Committee for State Security) | |
The People's Commissariat for State Security (Russian: Народный комиссариат государственной безопасности, romanized: Narodnyy komissariat gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti) or NKGB, was the name of the Soviet secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence force that existed from 3 February 1941 to 20 July 1941, and again from 1943 to 1946, before being renamed the Ministry for State Security (MGB).
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