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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

2006) was a veteran of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War, an OGPU security agent, and at the time of his death the last surviving Chekist of...

department (special safeguard) of Operod, SOU OGPU, Mar–Jun 1931 4th department of Operod, OGPU, Jun 1931 Operod of OGPU Operative division (Operod) of GUGB NKVD...