Committee for State Security (Ukraine)

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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The KGB of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian: Комітет державної безпеки УРСР) was a state committee of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and a regional predecessor of the Security Service of Ukraine, a republican part of All-Union Committee for State Security. After the adaptation of the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR (1978), it possessed a ministerial authority.