KGB

Tags: Government Agency.

For other meanings see KGB (disambiguation).KGB an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ) translated in English as Committee for State Security) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. Formed in 1954 as a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka NKGB and MGB the committee was attached to the Council of Ministers.

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child organisation

First Chief Directorate

extinction date

1991-11-06, 1991-12-03

extinction year

1991-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

headquarter

Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Lubyanka Square

jurisdiction

Soviet Union

leader

Vladimir Kryuchkov

location

Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Lubyanka Square

parent organisation

Council of Ministers (Soviet Union), Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union