SMERSH

soviet intelligence agency specialized in counterintelligence, existing 1943-1946
Organization intelligence_agency Q158363
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SMERSH

Summary

SMERSH is an intelligence agency[1]. SMERSH ranks in the top 7% of intelligence_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (791 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • SMERSH's field of work was counterintelligence[3].
  • SMERSH is in the country of Soviet Union[4].
  • SMERSH's instance of is recorded as intelligence agency[5].
  • SMERSH's logo image is recorded as СМЕРШ Удостоверение контрразведки 1943.jpg[6].
  • SMERSH's headquarters location is recorded as Lubyanka Building[7].
  • SMERSH's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 133069492[8].
  • SMERSH's GND ID is recorded as 2082157-8[9].
  • SMERSH's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n85376258[10].
  • SMERSH's part of is recorded as Soviet Armed Forces[11].
  • SMERSH's Commons category is recorded as SMERSh[12].
  • +1943-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of SMERSH[13].
  • SMERSH was dissolved in +1946-05-04T00:00:00Z[14].
  • SMERSH's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0204y4[15].
  • SMERSH's topic's main category is recorded as Category:SMERSh[16].
  • SMERSH's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3839330[17].
  • SMERSH's Quora topic ID is recorded as SMERSH[18].
  • SMERSH's derivative work is recorded as SMERSH[19].
  • SMERSH's LibraryThing author ID is recorded as smersh[20].
  • SMERSH's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007268365605171[21].
  • SMERSH's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/edfd737b-96db-433e-967f-db97521f9a63[22].

Body

Founding

+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of SMERSH[13].

Identity

SMERSH's part of is recorded as Soviet Armed Forces[11].

Operations

SMERSH's headquarters location is recorded as Lubyanka Building[7].

Industry

SMERSH's field of work was counterintelligence[3].

Dissolution

SMERSH was dissolved in +1946-05-04T00:00:00Z[14].

Why It Matters

SMERSH ranks in the top 7% of intelligence_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (791 views/month).[2] SMERSH has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] SMERSH is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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