4.
Ob’edinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie pri Soviete Narodnykh Komissarov
United State Political Directorate under the Council of Soviet Commissars
OGPU
1922–34
Control of the local GPU offices and of special departments in the army
5.
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del SSSR (included Glavnoe Upravlenie Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti)
The USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior (a merged body of the OGPU and the Russian Federation NKVD; included Main State Security Directorate)
NKVD (included GUGB)
July 1934—February 1941
GUGB: counterintelligence, intelligence, actions against political parties, anti-Soviet elements, and terrorists; control of special investigation prisons; GULAG: control of prisoners in prisons and labor camps; guarding state borders; OSO special trials;ii etc.
6.
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del SSSR
The USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior
NKVD
February 1941—July 1941
Police; control of prisons, labor camps, concentration camps for POWs and of numerous directorates of slave labor camps in all branches of state economy, including Dalstroi; creation of special operational techniques; fire-fighting directorate; etc.
7.
Narodnyi Komissariat Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR (former GUGB)
The USSR State Security People’s Commissariat (former GUGB)
NKGB
February 1941—July 1941
Foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, investigation of political cases, usage of operational techniques, etc.
8.
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del SSSR (NKVD merged with NKGB)
The USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior
NKVD
July 1941—April 1943
Foreign intelligence; counterintelligence; political surveillance; investigation of political cases; control of prisons, POW camps, GULAG, other labor camps in different branches of the economy; interior troops; creation of special operational techniques; control of state archives; etc.
9.
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del SSSR
The USSR People’s Commissariat of the Interior
NKVD
April 1943—March 1946
Control of the GULAG and other labor camps in different branches of the economy; interior troops and border guards; etc.
9.
Narodnyi Komissariat Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR
The USSR State Security People’s Commissariat
NKGB
April 1943—March 1946
Intelligence; counterintelligence; terrorist actions on the territories occupied by Germans; usage of the operational techniques; censorship; control of the state archives; etc.
10.
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR (former NKGB)
The USSR Ministry of State Security
MGB
March 1946—March 1953
Intelligence; counterintelligence; military counterintelligence; usage of the operational techniques; censorship; investigation of political cases; creation of operational technique; usage of operational techniques; atomic espionage; OSO (special trials), etc.
11.
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del SSSR (former NKVD)
The USSR Ministry of the Interior
MVD
March 1946—March 1953
Control of labor camps in all branches of economy; GULAG; OSO, different special troops (including the Border Guards and the Interior); etc.
12.
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del SSSR (MGB merged with MVD)
The USSR Ministry of the Interior
MVD
March 1953—March 1954
All functions of the former MGB and MVD
13.
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti pri Soviete Ministrov SSSR
Committee of State Security (under the USSR Council of Ministers)
KGB
March 1954—December 1991
Foreign intelligence; counterintelligence; military counterintelligence; fight against anti-Soviet elements; operational and technical department; Border Guards; etc.
14.
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del SSSR
The USSR Ministry of the Interior
MVD
March 1954—August 1991
Control of prisons and labor camps; police; interior troops; etc.
15.
Tsentral’naya Sluzba Razvedki, later Sluzhba Vneshnei Razvedki (former Pervoe Glavnoe Upravlenie KGB)
Central Intelligence Service, later Foreign Intelligence Service (former First KGB Main Directorate)
TsSR, later SVR
December 1991—present
Foreign intelligence
16.
Mezhrespublikanskaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti
Interrepublican Security Service
MSB
November—December 1991
Main KGB and MVD functions without foreign intelligence
17.
Ministerstvo Bezopasnosti i Vnutrennikh Del
Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs
MBVD
December 1991—January 1992
The same
18.
Agenstvo Federal’noi Bezopasnosti
Federal Security Agency
AFB
January 1992
The same
19.
Ministerstvo Bezopasnosti, then Federal’naya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki, then Federal’naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti
Ministry of Security, then Federal Security Agency, then Federal Security Service
MB, then FSK, then FSB
1992—present
Counterintelligence, military counterintelligence, transportation security, anti-terrorism actions, surveillance
20.
Federal’noe Agenstvo Pravitel’stvennoi Svyazi i Informatsii (former 8th KGB Main Directorate, the 16th KGB Directorate, and Communication Troops)
Federal Agency for Government Communication and Information
FAPSI
December 1991—present
Control of government telephone lines, high-frequency communication systems, cryptography services
21.
Glavnoe Upravlenie Okhrany (former 9th KGB Main Directorate)
Main Guard Directorate
GUO
December 1991—present
No legally defined function; accountable to the President. Includes Presidential Regiment and the Alfa Group (an elite special former 7th KGB Main Directorate commandos)
22.
Federal’naya Pogranichnaya Sluzhba (former KGB Border Guards Main Directorate)
Federal Border Service
FPS
1992—present
Guarding Russia’s land frontiers and the perimeter of the Russian Federation coastal waters
23.
Ministerstvo Vnytrennikh Del
Ministry of Internal Affairs
MVD
1991—present
Interior troops; police; fire-fighters department, etc.