The Joint State Political Directorate (JSPD) (OGPU; Russian: Объединённое государственное политическое управление, romanized: Ob"yedinyonnoye gosudarstvennoye...

Soviet Red Army soldier, Chekist, OGPU agent and Chief of OGPU Eastern Section (1928–1929). The first senior OGPU officer to defect to the West (1930)...

was reinstated as an all-union commissariat in 1934. The functions of the OGPU (the secret police organization) were transferred to the NKVD around the...

1991. As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, it was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was...

the OGPU was devoted to sabotaging Akulov." Stalin must have agreed to his reinstatement with ill grace, because four years later he accused the OGPU/NKVD...

led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime...

January] 1891 – 2 February 1940) was a Soviet politician and member of the Cheka and OGPU. He was a key figure in the Red Terror, the Great Purge and dekulakization...

Soviet statesman and Communist Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. He was master of more than 10 languages (including Korean...

Directorate (OGPU). Then to April 1930 he served in its administration, and until July 1934 in the administration of the North Caucasian district of the OGPU. From...

Office of troops VCHK-OGPU. 1 December 1922 – The headquarters of the troops OGPU. 3 October 1923 – Inspektsiya troops GPU-OGPU. 6 November 1926 – The...