gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, Главное управление государственной безопасности, ГУГБ, GUGB) was the name of the Soviet Union's most important security body within the...

was incorporated into the NKVD as the Main Directorate for State Security (GUGB); the separate NKVD of the RSFSR was not resurrected until 1946 (as the MVD...

Vyacheslav Menzhinsky until replaced by the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) within the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). The OGPU played...

Affairs (NKVD) as the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB). The director of the GUGB was the first deputy of the People's Commissar of Interior...

Sections and one Investigation Unit were separated from GUGB NKVD. The official liquidation of OO GUGB within NKVD was announced on 12 February by a joint...

one Investigation Unit, was separated from the GUGB NKVD. The official liquidation of the OO GUGB and GUGB as organized units within the NKVD was announced...

NKVD as a GUGB), Abakumov started his work in a 1st Section of Economics Department (EKO) by the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) of NKVD. On...

introduced a numeration of departments in the GUGB organization, hence Foreign Department or INO of the GUGB became GUGB's Department 7, and later Department 5...

Operod of OGPU Operative division (Operod) of GUGB NKVD USSR, Jul 1934 – Nov 1936 Division of safeguard by GUGB NKVD USSR, Dec 1936 – Jun 1938 Department...

OGPU becomes GUGB ("Main Directorate for State Security") in the all-union NKVD. NKVD – "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs" GUGB – "Main Directorate...

commissioner of Division 1 of the GUGB (OGPU) Economic Department (EKO), 1933–1935; operational commissioner of Division 2 of the GUGB EKO, later Division 14 (Vneshtorg...

largely reused by the newly created Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) in their rank structure, although they had Commissar-style ranks for top...

of General Directorate for State Security (GUGB) of the NKVD. On March 21, 1939 the Central School of GUGB NKVD was reorganized as the Graduate School...

ОГПУ Special Department of the GUGB NKVD USSR, Особый отдел ГУГБ НКВД СССР (July 1934 –) 5th (Special) Dept. of GUGB, 5-й (особый) отдел ГУГБ December...

and not based on military insignia. This system was largely reused by the GUGB in their special rank structure introduced in 1935, although with new rank...

1934–41 1941–43 NKVD of the USSR (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR (Main Directorate of State Security) 1941 1943–46...

intelligence organizations", such as the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB), State Political Directorate (GPU), MGB, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, KGB and the First...

1934–41 1941–43 NKVD of the USSR (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR (Main Directorate of State Security) 1941 1943–46...

Beria was appointed head of the Main Administration of State Security (GUGB) of the NKVD, and in November he succeeded Yezhov as NKVD head. Yezhov was...

Lavrentii Beria was appointed its head. Dekanozov was the deputy chief of GUGB and at the same time headed both its foreign-intelligence and counterintelligence...

December 1907 – 24 December 1971) was a Soviet intelligence officer (INO–GUGB–NKVD–NKGB) who was the director of Soviet intelligence during World War II...

1934–41 1941–43 NKVD of the USSR (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR (Main Directorate of State Security) 1941 1943–46...

(1898–1953), Soviet senior state security operative and diplomat, deputy chief of GUGB Vladimir Kolokoltsev (born 1961), Russian politician and police officer,...

both as chief of NKVD and General Commissar of State Security (chief of GUGB). The order implemented a resolution by Politburo. The corresponding parts...

lapses by Philby aroused intense suspicion in Moscow. Elena Modrzhinskaya at GUGB headquarters in Moscow assessed all material from the Cambridge Five. She...

1934–41 1941–43 NKVD of the USSR (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR (Main Directorate of State Security) 1941 1943–46...

the Secret Political Department of the Main State Security Directorate (GUGB) at the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs until December 22, 1938...

(1898–1938), Jewish Ukrainian Soviet head of the foreign intelligence service (GUGB) Allan Slutsky, known as "Dr. Licks" (born 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)...

when the OGPU was reincorporated as the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) of the NKVD. Bolshoy Dom subsequently became the local headquarters for...

When Beria took over as head of the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) on 29 September 1938, he chose Merkulov as his deputy. In 1939, he was elected...