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Security Services of Russia - Leadership

DZERZHINSKY
FELIX EDMUNDOVICH
Chairman of the ChekaDec 20, 1917
Chairman of the GPU-OGPUFebruary 1922
PETERS
YAKOV CHRISTOHOROVICH
Chairman of the Cheka July 1918 August 1918
MENZHINSKY
VYACHESLAV RUDOLFOVICH
Chairman of the OGPUJuly 1926July 1934
YAGODA
HENRIH GRIGORYEVICH
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSRJuly 1934
General Commissioner of State SecurityOctober 1935
YEZHOV
NIKOLAY IVANOVICH
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSRSeptember 1936
General Commissioner of State SecurityJanuary 1937
BERIA
LAVRENTIY PAVLOVICH
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSRDecember 1938 1946
March 1953 June 1953
MERKULOV
VSEVOLOD NIKOLAYEVICH
People's Commissar of State Security of the USSRFebruary 1941 July 1941
July 1943 1946
ABAKUMOV
VICTOR SEMENOVICH
Minister of State Security of the USSR19461951
IGNATEV
SEED DENISOVICH
Minister of State Security of the USSR19511953
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 1953January 1956.
SEROV
IVAN ALEXANDROVICH
Chairman of the KGB of the USSRMarch 1954December 1958
SHELEPIN
ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH
Chairman of the KGB of the USSRDecember 1958November 1961
SEMICHASTIC
VLADIMIR EFIMOVICH
Chairman of the KGB of the USSR19611967
ANDROPOV
YURI VLADIMIROVICH
Chairman of the KGB of the USSR19671982
FEDORCHUK
VITALY VASILYEVICH
Chairman of the KGB of the USSRMayDecember 1982
CHEBRIKOV
VICTOR MIKHAILOVICH
Chairman of the KGB of the USSRDecember 19821988
KRYUCHKOV
VLADIMIR ALEXANDROVICH
Chairman of the KGB of the USSR1988August 1991
BAKATIN
VADIM VICTOROVICH
Chairman of the KGB of the USSRAugust 1991January 1992
BARANNIKOV
VICTOR PAVLOVICH
The Minister of Security of the Russian FederationJanuary 1992September 1993
GOLUŠKO
NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH
Director of FGC of RussiaDecember 1993February 1994
STEPASHIN
SERGEY VADIMOVICH
Director of FSK , Federal Security Service of RussiaFebruary 1994June 1995
BARSUKOV
MIKHAIL IVANOVICH
Director of the Federal Security Service of RussiaJuly 1995June 1996
KOVALEV
NIKOLAY DMITRIEVICH
Director of the Federal Security Service of RussiaJuly 1996 July 1998
PUTIN
VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH
Director of the Federal Security Service of RussiaJuly 1998August 1999
PATRUSHEV
NIKOLAI PLATONOVICH
Director of the Federal Security Service of RussiaAugust 1999May 2008
ALEXANDER
VASILYEVICH BOARDNIKOV
Director of the Federal Security Service of RussiaMay 2008




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