NKVD
Videos
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
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
Genrikh Yagoda
Videos
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin,
NKVD
…the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations on the Eastern Front of World War II. The head of the NKVD was Genrikh Yagoda from 1934 to 1936, Nikolai Yezhov from 1936 to 1938, Lavrentiy Beria from 1938 to 1946, and Sergei Kruglov in 1946. First established in 1917 as the…
Yagoda in 1936
Yagoda on a police information card from 1912
Yagoda and his wife Ida Averbakh, deputy prosecutor of Moscow, 30 September 1922