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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Statements (49)

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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Referenced by (30)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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 ⓘ