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Ministry for State Security

Soviet state security apparatus, secret police and security service
Organization Intelligence Agency Q11420727

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
intelligence agency, ministry[3]
Short name
МГБ СССР[11]

Status and dates

Inception
March 15, 1946[7]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished
March 5, 1953[8]
Replaces
Main Directorate of State Security, People's Commissariat for State Security[9][10]

Location

Country
Soviet Union[2]

Relations

Follows
NKVD, People's Commissariat for State Security[4][5]
Followed by
KGB[6]
More facts +2
Different from
Ministry for State Security[12]
Position held by head of the organization
minister for State Security[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en MGB USSR en MGB en Ministry for State Security ar كان وزارة أمن الدولة في الاتحاد السوفياتي ar وزارة أمن الدولة cs Ministerstvo státní bezpečnosti (SSSR) cs Ministerstvo státní bezpečnosti cs MGB de Ministerium für Staatssicherheit el Υπουργείο Κρατικής Ασφάλειας (Σοβιετική Ένωση) es MGB es MGB (URSS) es Ministerio de la Seguridad del Estado fr Ministerstvo Gossoudarstvennoï Bezopasnosti he משרד לבטחון המדינה id Kementerian Keamanan Negara (Uni Soviet) it MGB it Ministero per la sicurezza dello Stato ja ソビエト連邦国家保安省 ja 国家保安人民委員部
🔖 Identifiers · 8
VIAF cluster ID
126036173
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n2014068448
GND ID
1220529737
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/MGB
Freebase ID
/m/04lyy4
J9U entity ID
987007268364305171, 987007301018005171
Museum-digital person/organization ID
144258
Topic's main category
Category:Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union)
📚 Sources · 1
  • GND (DNB) as of 2026-09-30 · 1 statement · CC0 1.0 DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.

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Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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🔗 Connections
← Military branch 6
Viktor Abakumov, Pyotr Ivashutin, Agasalim Atakishiyev, Boris Galushkin, Dmitry Tokarev, Nikoloz Rukhadze
Employees / affiliates 3
John Cairncross, Reino Häyhänen, Victor Gusan
Follows 2
NKVD, People's Commissariat for State Security
Instance of 2
ministry, intelligence agency
Preceded by (successor) 2
NKVD, People's Commissariat for State Security
Replaces 2
Main Directorate of State Security, People's Commissariat for State Security
← Replaced by 2
NKVD, Main Directorate of State Security
Country 1
Soviet Union
Different from 1
Ministry for State Security
Followed by 1
KGB
Followed by (predecessor) 1
KGB
← Commander of (DEPRECATED) 1
Pavel Sudoplatov
← Field of work 1
Viktor Abakumov
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Summary

Ministry for State Security is an intelligence agency[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 1220529737
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56529: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 17w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Ministry for State Security
    Position held by head of the organization → minister for State Security
    Commons category → Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union)
    Topic's main category → Category:Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union)
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: J9U entity ID: 987007301018005171, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783595065105; Based on LC id in the National Library of Israel"
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