Felix Dzerzhinsky

Also known as Loïc pcs, Feliks Dzierzynski, Feliks Dzierżyński, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, FD

Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs (1877-1926)

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Felix Dzerzhinsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary who founded and led the Soviet Union's first secret police organization, making him a central figure in establishing the Communist state's system of internal security and control. His role matters historically because the secret police apparatus he created became a key instrument through which the Soviet government maintained power and conducted political repression throughout its existence.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Feliks
Gender: male
Citizenship: Soviet Union
Place of birth: Dzerzhinovo
Place of death: Moscow
Spouse: Sofia Dzerzhinskaya
Occupation: revolutionary
Political party: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik)
Languages spoken: Russian
Native language: Polish
Religion: atheism
Award: Order of the Red Banner
Participant in: 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party
Image: Feliks Dzierżyński.jpg
Residence: Saint Petersburg

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Commons category: Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
date of death: 1926-07-20
date of birth: 1877-08-30
place of burial: Kremlin Wall Necropolis
cause of death: myocardial infarction
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
name in native language: Feliks Dzierżyński
place of detention: Butyrka prison
topic's main category: Category:Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Commons Creator page: Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
described at URL: www.polskipetersburg.pl/hasla/dzierzynski-feliks
birth name: Feliks Szczęsny Dzierżyński
allegiance: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (Russian: Железный Феликс), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet secret police organizations—the Cheka, the GPU and the OGPU—establishing state security organs for the new Soviet government.

Born to a Polish family of noble descent in Ozhyemblovo estate (now Dzerzhinovo), in Russian Poland, Dzerzhinsky embraced revolutionary politics from a young age, and was active in the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania party. Active in Kaunas and Warsaw, he was frequently arrested and underwent several exiles to Siberia, from which he escaped every time. He evaded the tsarist secret police, the Okhrana, whose work he took interest in. Dzerzhinsky participated in the failed 1905 Revolution, and pursued further revolutionary activities in Germany and Poland. after a final arrest in 1912, was imprisoned until the February Revolution of 1917. He then joined Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik party, and played an active role in the October Revolution which brought them to power.

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