Security Services of Russia - Leadership
| DZERZHINSKY FELIX EDMUNDOVICH | Chairman of the Cheka | Dec 20, 1917 | |
| Chairman of the GPU-OGPU | February 1922 | ||
| PETERS YAKOV CHRISTOHOROVICH | Chairman of the Cheka | July 1918 | August 1918 |
| MENZHINSKY VYACHESLAV RUDOLFOVICH | Chairman of the OGPU | July 1926 | July 1934 |
| YAGODA HENRIH GRIGORYEVICH | People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR | July 1934 | |
| General Commissioner of State Security | October 1935 | ||
| YEZHOV NIKOLAY IVANOVICH | People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR | September 1936 | |
| General Commissioner of State Security | January 1937 | ||
| BERIA LAVRENTIY PAVLOVICH | People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR | December 1938 | 1946 |
| March 1953 | June 1953 | ||
| MERKULOV VSEVOLOD NIKOLAYEVICH | People's Commissar of State Security of the USSR | February 1941 | July 1941 |
| July 1943 | 1946 | ||
| ABAKUMOV VICTOR SEMENOVICH | Minister of State Security of the USSR | 1946 | 1951 |
| IGNATEV SEED DENISOVICH | Minister of State Security of the USSR | 1951 | 1953 |
| KRUGLOV SERGEY NIKIFOROVICH | The Minister of the Interior of the USSR (united by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security of the USSR into a single Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR) | June 1953 | January 1956. |
| SEROV IVAN ALEXANDROVICH | Chairman of the KGB of the USSR | March 1954 | December 1958 |
| SHELEPIN ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH | Chairman of the KGB of the USSR | December 1958 | November 1961 |
| SEMICHASTIC VLADIMIR EFIMOVICH | Chairman of the KGB of the USSR | 1961 | 1967 |
| ANDROPOV YURI VLADIMIROVICH | Chairman of the KGB of the USSR | 1967 | 1982 |
| FEDORCHUK VITALY VASILYEVICH | Chairman of the KGB of the USSR | May | December 1982 |
| CHEBRIKOV VICTOR MIKHAILOVICH | Chairman of the KGB of the USSR | December 1982 | 1988 |
| KRYUCHKOV VLADIMIR ALEXANDROVICH | Chairman of the KGB of the USSR | 1988 | August 1991 |
| BAKATIN VADIM VICTOROVICH | Chairman of the KGB of the USSR | August 1991 | January 1992 |
| BARANNIKOV VICTOR PAVLOVICH | The Minister of Security of the Russian Federation | January 1992 | September 1993 |
| GOLUŠKO NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH | Director of FGC of Russia | December 1993 | February 1994 |
| STEPASHIN SERGEY VADIMOVICH | Director of FSK , Federal Security Service of Russia | February 1994 | June 1995 |
| BARSUKOV MIKHAIL IVANOVICH | Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia | July 1995 | June 1996 |
| KOVALEV NIKOLAY DMITRIEVICH | Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia | July 1996 | July 1998 |
| PUTIN VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH | Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia | July 1998 | August 1999 |
| PATRUSHEV NIKOLAI PLATONOVICH | Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia | August 1999 | May 2008 |
| ALEXANDER VASILYEVICH BOARDNIKOV | Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia | May 2008 |
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