Lev Knipper
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Lev Konstantinovich Knipper was a Soviet and Russian composer and OGPU/NKVD agent.
Young Lev (left) with sisters Ada (center) and Olga (right); date unknown
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The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated as NKVD, was both the interior ministry and the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Jo
Lev Knipper
…Konstantinovich Knipper (Russian: Лев Константи́нович Кни́ппер; 3 December [O.S. 21 November] 1898 – 30 July 1974) was a Soviet and Russian composer and OGPU/NKVD agent. Lev Knipper was born in Tiflis to railway engineer Konstantin Leonardovich Knipper and Elena-Luiza Yulyevna Rid. Shortly after his birth, the…
Early NKVD leaders, Genrikh Yagoda, then (1924) 1st deputy head of SOU OGPU Vyacheslav Menzhinsky then head of SOU OGPU and deputy head OGPU, and Felix Dzerzhinsky chief of OGPU, 1924
NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda (middle) inspecting construction of what was then called the Moskva-Volga Canal, 1935. Behind him is Nikita Khrushchev
Lavrentiy Beria with Joseph Stalin (in background) and Stalin's daughter Svetlana
Memorial to the NKVD employee in the city of Znamianka