| 4. |
Ob’edinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie pri Soviete Narodnykh Komissarov |
United State Political Directorate under the Council of Soviet Commissars |
OGPU |
1922–34 |
Control of the local GPU offices and of special departments in the army |
| 5. |
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del SSSR (included Glavnoe Upravlenie Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti) |
The USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior (a merged body of the OGPU and the Russian Federation NKVD; included Main State Security Directorate) |
NKVD (included GUGB) |
July 1934—February 1941 |
GUGB: counterintelligence, intelligence, actions against political parties, anti-Soviet elements, and terrorists; control of special investigation prisons; GULAG: control of prisoners in prisons and labor camps; guarding state borders; OSO special trials;ii etc. |
| 6. |
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del SSSR |
The USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior |
NKVD |
February 1941—July 1941 |
Police; control of prisons, labor camps, concentration camps for POWs and of numerous directorates of slave labor camps in all branches of state economy, including Dalstroi; creation of special operational techniques; fire-fighting directorate; etc. |
| 7. |
Narodnyi Komissariat Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR (former GUGB) |
The USSR State Security People’s Commissariat (former GUGB) |
NKGB |
February 1941—July 1941 |
Foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, investigation of political cases, usage of operational techniques, etc. |
| 8. |
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del SSSR (NKVD merged with NKGB) |
The USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior |
NKVD |
July 1941—April 1943 |
Foreign intelligence; counterintelligence; political surveillance; investigation of political cases; control of prisons, POW camps, GULAG, other labor camps in different branches of the economy; interior troops; creation of special operational techniques; control of state archives; etc. |
| 9. |
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del SSSR |
The USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior |
NKVD |
April 1943—March 1946 |
Control of the GULAG and other labor camps in different branches of the economy; interior troops and border guards; etc. |
| 9. |
Narodnyi Komissariat Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR |
The USSR State Security People’s Commissariat |
NKGB |
April 1943—March 1946 |
Intelligence; counterintelligence; terrorist actions on the territories occupied by Germans; usage of the operational techniques; censorship; control of the state archives; etc. |
| 10. |
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR (former NKGB) |
The USSR Ministry of State Security |
MGB |
March 1946—March 1953 |
Intelligence; counterintelligence; military counterintelligence; usage of the operational techniques; censorship; investigation of political cases; creation of operational technique; usage of operational techniques; atomic espionage; OSO (special trials), etc. |
| 11. |
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del SSSR (former NKVD) |
The USSR Ministry of the Interior |
MVD |
March 1946—March 1953 |
Control of labor camps in all branches of economy; GULAG; OSO, different special troops (including the Border Guards and the Interior); etc. |
| 12. |
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del SSSR (MGB merged with MVD) |
The USSR Ministry of the Interior |
MVD |
March 1953—March 1954 |
All functions of the former MGB and MVD |
| 13. |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti pri Soviete Ministrov SSSR |
Committee of State Security (under the USSR Council of Ministers) |
KGB |
March 1954—December 1991 |
Foreign intelligence; counterintelligence; military counterintelligence; fight against anti-Soviet elements; operational and technical department; Border Guards; etc. |
| 14. |
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del SSSR |
The USSR Ministry of the Interior |
MVD |
March 1954—August 1991 |
Control of prisons and labor camps; police; interior troops; etc. |
| 15. |
Tsentral’naya Sluzba Razvedki, later Sluzhba Vneshnei Razvedki (former Pervoe Glavnoe Upravlenie KGB) |
Central Intelligence Service, later Foreign Intelligence Service (former First KGB Main Directorate) |
TsSR, later SVR |
December 1991—present |
Foreign intelligence |
| 16. |
Mezhrespublikanskaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti |
Interrepublican Security Service |
MSB |
November—December 1991 |
Main KGB and MVD functions without foreign intelligence |
| 17. |
Ministerstvo Bezopasnosti i Vnutrennikh Del |
Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs |
MBVD |
December 1991—January 1992 |
The same |
| 18. |
Agenstvo Federal’noi Bezopasnosti |
Federal Security Agency |
AFB |
January 1992 |
The same |
| 19. |
Ministerstvo Bezopasnosti, then Federal’naya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki, then Federal’naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti |
Ministry of Security, then Federal Security Agency, then Federal Security Service |
MB, then FSK, then FSB |
1992—present |
Counterintelligence, military counterintelligence, transportation security, anti-terrorism actions, surveillance |
| 20. |
Federal’noe Agenstvo Pravitel’stvennoi Svyazi i Informatsii (former 8th KGB Main Directorate, the 16th KGB Directorate, and Communication Troops) |
Federal Agency for Government Communication and Information |
FAPSI |
December 1991—present |
Control of government telephone lines, high-frequency communication systems, cryptography services |
| 21. |
Glavnoe Upravlenie Okhrany (former 9th KGB Main Directorate) |
Main Guard Directorate |
GUO |
December 1991—present |
No legally defined function; accountable to the President. Includes Presidential Regiment and the Alfa Group (an elite special former 7th KGB Main Directorate commandos) |
| 22. |
Federal’naya Pogranichnaya Sluzhba (former KGB Border Guards Main Directorate) |
Federal Border Service |
FPS |
1992—present |
Guarding Russia’s land frontiers and the perimeter of the Russian Federation coastal waters |
| 23. |
Ministerstvo Vnytrennikh Del |
Ministry of Internal Affairs |
MVD |
1991—present |
Interior troops; police; fire-fighters department, etc. |