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Sign in to saveAlso known as Committee for State Security, Committee for State Security of the USSR, Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union, CSS of the USSR, State Security Committee of the USSR, State Security Committee of the Soviet Union, SSC of the USSR
آژانس امنیتی اصلی شوروی (۱۹۵۴–۱۹۹۱)
The KGB was the Soviet Union's main security and intelligence agency from 1954 to 1991, responsible for internal security, foreign intelligence, and secret police operations. It matters historically because it was a central instrument of Soviet state control and successor to earlier Soviet secret police forces, wielding significant power over the country's population and activities abroad.
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Key facts
- Government agency.agency_name
- KGB
- Government agency.seal
- Emblema KGB.svg
- Government agency.seal_width
- 150
- Government agency.preceding1
- Cheka (1917–1922)
- Government agency.preceding2
- GPU (1922–1923)
- Government agency.preceding3
- OGPU (1923–1934)
- Government agency.preceding5
- NKGB (February–July 1941/1943–1946)
- Government agency.superseding1
- MSB (1991)
- Government agency.superseding2
- TsSR (1991)
- Government agency.superseding3
- AFB (1991)
- Government agency.superseding4
- KOGG (1991)
- Government agency.headquarters
- Lubyanka Building, 2 Bolshaya Lubyanka Street, Moscow, Soviet Union
- Government agency.chief1_name
- Chairman
- Government agency.agency_type
- State committee of union-republican jurisdiction
- Government agency.child1_agency
- Foreign intelligence: First Chief Directorate
- Government agency.child2_agency
- Counter-Intelligence: Second Chief Directorate
- Government agency.child3_agency
- Political police: Fifth Chief Directorate
- Government agency.child4_agency
- Cryptography: Eighth Chief Directorate
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Wikidata facts
- Field of work
- counterintelligence
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Headquarters
- Moscow
- Parent organization
- Council of Ministers of the USSR
- Chairperson
- Vadim Bakatin
- Employees
- 480000
- Follows
- Ministry for State Security
- Image
- RIAN archive 142949 Lubyanka Square in Moscow.jpg
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- Commons category
- KGB
- topic's main category
- Category:KGB
- inception
- 1954-03-13
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1991-12-03
- applies to jurisdiction
- Soviet Union
- short name
- КГБ
- native label
- Комитет государственной безопасности СССР
- replaces
- NKVD
- different from
- Ministry of State Security
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- authority
- Council of Ministers of the USSR
- category for employees of the organization
- Category:KGB officers
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