People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

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The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) was the Soviet Union's powerful security and secret police agency responsible for political repression, mass arrests, and the administration of the Gulag system, especially during Stalin's rule.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf government ministry
intelligence agency
law enforcement agency
secret police agency
appliesToJurisdiction Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
linked to: Soviet Union
continent Asia
Europe
country Soviet Union
dissolved 1946
fieldOfWork border security
counterintelligence
intelligence
internal security
labor camps administration
law enforcement
political repression
prison administration
secret police activities
hasAlias NKVD of the USSR
linked to: NKVD
hasPart Gulag
linked to: Gulag system

border troops
internal troops
militsiya (Soviet police) in certain periods
state security directorates
headquartersLocation Moscow
inception 1934
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
nativeName Народный комиссариат внутренних дел
nativeNameLanguage Russian
notableCommander Genrikh Yagoda
Lavrentiy Beria
Nikolai Yezhov
notableWork Katyn massacre
Soviet wartime counterintelligence operations
administration of the Gulag system
forced deportations of ethnic groups
implementation of the Great Purge
mass political arrests in the 1930s
operatedDuringTheRegimeOf Joseph Stalin
precededBy Joint State Political Directorate
replacedBy Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR
Ministry of State Security of the USSR
shortName NKVD
significantEvent mass operations against perceived enemies of the state
organization of forced labor projects
role in World War II internal security
role in the Great Terror
subordinateTo Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
Soviet government

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Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR predecessor People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Soviet NKVD special camp operatedBy People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" organizedBy NKVD
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
ÁVH influencedBy Soviet NKVD
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Народный комиссариат государственной безопасности precededBy Народный комиссариат внутренних дел СССР (в части функций госбезопасности)
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Andrei Sverdlov memberOf NKVD
subject linked to: Sverdlov
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 carriedOutBy People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
people's commissariat hasPart People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Provisional Government followedBy People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR relatedInstitution People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
KarLag system of Gulag camps operatedBy NKVD
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Kozelsk camp operatedBy NKVD
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Ostashkov camp governingAuthority People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Norilsk mining industry historicalOperator Soviet NKVD system
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
NKVD camps operatedBy People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
NKVD fullName People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
subject linked to: NKWD
NKVD nativeName Народный комиссариат внутренних дел
subject linked to: NKWD
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire replacedBy People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire replacedBy NKVD of the RSFSR
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Государственное политическое управление hasSuccessor Объединённое государственное политическое управление при НКВД СССР
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Joint State Political Directorate successor People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
MVD of the USSR predecessor People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs nativeName Народный комиссариат внутренних дел
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR precededBy People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs structures in Bessarabia and Transnistria (as main Soviet authority)
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
NKVD Special Camp No. 4 Bautzen securityForce People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Kharkiv NKVD prison securityService People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
NKVD Special Camp No. 5 Ketschendorf detainingAuthority People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky employer NKVD of the RSFSR
subject linked to: Menzhinsky
linked to: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Starobelsk camp operatedBy People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs